Erika Sinauer

Sinauer's stumbling block in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Erika Sinauer (born June 15, 1898 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; died between 1942 and 1945 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German legal historian .

The daughter of the Jewish lawyer Moritz Sinauer received a free religious education. She studied law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Your academic teacher was Claudius von Schwerin . She completed her legal traineeship in Freiburg. She was sworn in as a lawyer in 1927. After her father's death in 1930 she took over his office. Sinauer continued to pursue an academic career. She received her doctorate from Schwerin in 1928 with an investigation into Saxon land law. The work was supported by Karl August Eckhardt recognized as excellent work. She was Schwerin's assistant at the Legal History Institute in Freiburg and played a key role in setting up the structures there. Schwerin was given the issue of the Sachsenspiegel and the glossary . In 1931 she received a scholarship from the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft .

Until 1933, their work was documented in the annual reports in the New Archives . In the years to come, her name was no longer listed in the magazine. Without mentioning her name in the annual reports of the German Archives, she continued her work on the Sachsenspiegel glosses. In 1933, when she was banned from practicing, she not only lost her license to practice law, but also her position as assistant at the Institute of Legal History. She could at least use the university for her research on the Sachsenspiegel and for a planned habilitation. The results of her research on the origin of the Saxon mirror glosses were published in the New Archive in 1935 . The article was judged in the report of Monumenta in the journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History as "fundamental research" on "the history of efforts to create the glossary text [...] as well as the foreign law components and their meaning for the glossary text". Schwerin went to Munich in 1935. With the departure of her academic teacher and the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Sinauer became increasingly isolated. She stayed behind in Freiburg and continued working on the gloss. In 1938 the last “non-Aryan” scientists were expelled from universities by ministerial decree. Sinauer's collaboration for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica ended in 1938. Helene Bindewald continued to work on the glossary edition as her successor. However, she could not complete this. On October 22, 1940 Sinauer was deported to the Gurs internment camp . Sinauer's 115-volume library was confiscated by the Nazi regime and given to the Freiburg University Library . The Gestapo destroyed the manuscript for the glossary of the subject mirror . Sinauer managed to get to work in the countryside in a home in the Cevennes run by a Protestant organization . There she was arrested by the Gestapo and on September 2, 1942, deported from Drancy to Auschwitz , where she was murdered. The district court of Freiburg im Breisgau declared her dead in 1952 and set the date of death as March 8, 1945.

Nikola Becker dealt with the three today less well-known Jewish employees of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Paul Hirsch , Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. It shows that the bloodletting of German science as a result of the National Socialist persecution and extermination of the Jews also affected the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

Fonts

The key of the Saxon land law (= studies on German state and legal history. Vol. 139). Scientia-Verlag, Aachen 1970 = 1928, ISBN 3-511-04139-2 ( digitized version ).

literature

Karl S. Bader : In memoriam Erica Sinauer †. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department. 73, 1956, pp. 556-557.
Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the “Third Reich”. Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historical yearbook . 135, 2015, pp. 453-502.
Marlis Meckel: Give the victims their names back. Stumbling blocks in Freiburg. Rombach, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-7930-5018-6 , pp. 74 f. ( Online version ).

Web links

Publications by Erika Sinauer in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
SWR2 biography and audio stumbling block

Remarks

^ Review by Karl August Eckhardt in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department. 49, 1929, p. 546.
↑ To the edition: Rolf Lieberwirth: The Monumenta Germaniae Historica and the glosses to the Sachsenspiegel. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department. 119, 2002, pp. 316-325.
↑ Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135, 2015, pp. 453–502, here: p. 495.
↑ Erika Sinauer: Studies on the origin of the Sachsenspiegelglosse. In: New archive of the society for older German history. 50, 1935, pp. 475-581 ( DigiZeitschriften ).
^ Ulrich Stutz in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department. 55, 1935, p. 545.
↑ Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historical yearbook . 135, 2015, pp. 453–502, here: p. 500.
↑ Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historical yearbook. 135, 2015, pp. 453-502, here: p. 501; Dr. Erika Sinauer . In: Stolpersteine in Freiburg. Retrieved March 8, 2020.
↑ Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historical yearbook. 135, 2015, pp. 453–502, here: p. 502.

personal data
SURNAME	Sinauer, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sinauer, Erica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH	June 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH	between 1942 and 1945
Place of death	Auschwitz concentration camp

[1] Review by Karl August Eckhardt in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department. 49, 1929, p. 546.

[2] To the edition: Rolf Lieberwirth: The Monumenta Germaniae Historica and the glosses to the Sachsenspiegel. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department. 119, 2002, pp. 316-325.

[3] Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135, 2015, pp. 453–502, here: p. 495.

[4] Erika Sinauer: Studies on the origin of the Sachsenspiegelglosse. In: New archive of the society for older German history. 50, 1935, pp. 475-581 ( DigiZeitschriften ).

[5] Ulrich Stutz in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department. 55, 1935, p. 545.

[6] Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historical yearbook . 135, 2015, pp. 453–502, here: p. 500.

[7] Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historical yearbook. 135, 2015, pp. 453-502, here: p. 501; Dr. Erika Sinauer . In: Stolpersteine in Freiburg. Retrieved March 8, 2020.

[8] Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historical yearbook. 135, 2015, pp. 453–502, here: p. 502.