Ernst Blum (lawyer)

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Ernst Blum (born November 10, 1901 in Wellesweiler , † May 17, 1970 in Saarbrücken ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Ernst Blum was the son of the general manager August Blum (* 1871) and the shoe seller Karoline Blum (1869–1945). From 1908 until his blindness in 1911 he attended elementary school in Wellesweiler, then the secondary school in Neunkirchen (today grammar school on the Krebsberg ). From 1922 he studied law in Munich, Bonn and Cologne. He passed the first state examination on December 11, 1925, and on July 18, 1926, he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . From July 1, 1926 to December 20, 1929 he was a trainee lawyer at the Neunkircher district court and from February 15, 1932 a court assessor in Berlin and Saarbrücken.

On December 22, 1934, Blum married his secretary Martha Mayer (1904–1990).

At the beginning of the Nazi era in Germany, he was employed as a civil servant at the Saarbrücken tax authorities and was not yet persecuted by the Nazi regime. After the annexation of the Saar area to the German Reich , however, he was "forced to retire" in October 1935.

In 1935 he and his wife fled to France, first to Thionville , and in August 1939 to Contrexéville , where he was arrested on September 8, 1939 and interned in Senones . In 1940 he lived in Nice , in April 1944 he fled to Alvignac in Occitania .

After the war, in October 1945, the Blum couple returned to Saarland , and Ernst Blum took part in the rebuilding of the administration (Landesfürsorgeverband des Bezirkpräsidium Saar). On July 3, 1947, he was appointed senior councilor, on April 28, 1948, director of government, and on December 21, 1960, he was appointed ministerial advisor in the Ministry of Labor. On August 11, 1947, he was recognized as a victim of National Socialism. Blum was particularly committed to helping the blind and people of Jewish faith. In 1950 he becomes honorary president of the Saarland Blind Association.

Ernst Blum died of a heart attack on May 17, 1970 .

Honors

His commitment to rebuilding Jewish life in Germany and for the blind in Israel was widely recognized. Among other things, the Leo Baeck Prize was awarded to him in 1965 . In addition, the “Dr. Ernst Blum Clinic ”in Herzlia a hospital named after him.

In 2009 the regional historian Hans-Dieter Arntz described the written correspondence that Blum's father-in-law Isidor Mayer had with Blum and his wife Martha during the Nazi era. The letters give an insight into the everyday life of a Jewish couple in Euskirchen . Blum's in-laws perished in the Theresienstadt “old people's ghetto” , to which they were deported in 1942.

In his place of birth Wellesweiler, today a district of Neunkirchen (Saar) , a street was named after Ernst Blum. In Herzliya , Israel, there is a Dr. Ernst Blum Clinic .

Works

  • The integration of the blind into society . European Publishing House, 1966

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blum Ernst ( memento of April 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in Joachim Conrad : Saarländische Biografien , accessed on June 7, 2017
  2. ↑ Blum Martha b. Mayer in Joachim Conrad : Saarland Biographies , accessed on June 7, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c d e Hans-Dieter Arntz : A human tragedy in the Euskirchen "Judenhaus" Baumstrasse 7 - About the correspondence of a Jew from Euskirchen . In: Yearbook of the Euskirchen District 2013 . S. 24–31 ( hans-dieter-arntz.de ).
  4. ↑ Dieter Wolfanger (see literature)
  5. ↑ Central Council of Jews in Germany : 50 Years of the Leo Baeck Prize, 1957-2007 , Hentrich & Hentrich, 2007, page 51, ISBN 978-3-938485-67-5
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellesweiler
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1970
Place of death Saarbrücken