Ernst Kantorowicz (social worker)

Ernst Kantorowicz (also: Ernst Kantorowitz ; born September 16, 1892 in Forst (Lausitz) ; died 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German lawyer , municipal civil servant , university professor , pioneer of adult education . Immediately after he came to power in 1933, Kantorowicz was persecuted as a Jew . Although he had fled Germany, the Germans in the Netherlands got hold of him and murdered him in Auschwitz.

Life

Ernst Kantorowicz was born the son of a Jewish doctor. His family moved with him as a toddler in 1894 to Hanover , where he lived until he graduated from high school.

Kantorowicz studied law in Lausanne at the university there and in Berlin and Heidelberg at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität . In 1917 he completed his studies with a doctorate in Göttingen at the Georg-August University on the subject of methodological study on the concept of access (§ 130 BGB ) .

Kantorowicz returned to Hanover for a short time in 1919 and was there “[...] probably a member of a so-called council of intellectual workers ”. In February of the same year he published his comments on the public musical life of Hanover in the magazine Das Hohe Ufer , a late expressionist monthly newspaper that was published by Ludwig Ey in the context of the Kestner Society and edited by Hans Kaiser .

From 1920 to 1930 Ernst Kantorowicz worked as an assessor for the magistrate in Kiel , where he headed, among other things, the youth welfare office and the Kiel adult education center. In 1930 he moved to Frankfurt am Main , where he taught at the Vocational Education Institute in Frankfurt am Main as a professor of civics and social sciences . At that time Kantorowicz became a member of the SPD .

After the National Socialists seized power , Ernst Kantorowicz was removed from his office in Frankfurt in April 1933 due to the law to restore the civil service .

During the November pogroms in 1938 , Kantorowicz was arrested for the first time and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp . After his release he emigrated to the Netherlands . According to the German Reichsanzeiger , he was expatriated on April 15, 1940 .

In the Netherlands, Ernst Kantorowicz was arrested again in Amsterdam in 1940 and then deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto via the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . There he refused, on the orders of the SS, to take part in the selection of Jews who were to be designated for deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp . For this reason, Ernst Kantorowicz himself was deported to Auschwitz in autumn 1944, where he was murdered a little later.

Fonts (selection)

• Methodological study on the concept of access (§ 130 BGB). Legal dissertation at the University of Göttingen, Hanover: Helwingsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1917; contents
• Comments on the public musical life of Hanover. In: Hans Kaiser (Ed.): Das Hohe Ufer , Hannover: Verlag Ludwig Ey, February 1919 edition.
• Guide for youth welfare offices and juvenile lay judges in youth court assistance , ed. on behalf of the Provincial Welfare Office for the Province of Schleswig-Holstein with Em. Altenloh, Argelandersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Meldorf 1923.
• Guidelines for juvenile lay judges (= series of publications by the German Association for Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Courts , Issue 73). Verlag A. Herbig, Berlin 1926, (further editions)
• With Heinrich Webler a . a. Ed .: Yearbook of Youth Law. Carl Heymanns, Berlin. From 1930. (The yearbook was discontinued in 1934)

literature

• Gustav Radbruch : The Unforgettable. Victims of madness 1933 to 1945 , Heidelberg: Schneider Verlag, 1952, pp. 76–80.
• Ernst Simon (philosopher) : Building up in decline - Jewish adult education in National Socialist Germany as spiritual resistance. Mohr (Siebeck) Tübingen 1959. p. 43ff. (Leo Baeck Institute: Series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute; 2)
• Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , in the series Hannoversche Studien, series of publications of the Hannover City Archives , Volume 5, Hanover: Hahnsche Verlagbuchhandlung , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , p. 578ff.
• Silke van Dyk , Alexandra Schauer: Ernst Kantorowitz , in this: ... "that the official sociology failed." On sociology under National Socialism, the history of its processing and the role of the DGS (= yearbook for the history of sociology ), with the print a portrait - photograph of the lawyer, ed. by the German Society for Sociology , 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-06636-9 , p. 113; online through google books
• Kantorowicz, Ernst. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 13: Jaco-Kerr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-22693-4 , p. 243f.
• Kantorowicz, Ernst , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 183

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the information and cross-references under the GND number of the German National Library
2. ↑ Kantorowicz, Ernst in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (enter last name and year of birth) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , last accessed on October 3, 2019
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Hugo Thielen : Kantorowicz, Ernst. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 192
4. ↑ Ines Katenhusen: Hohe Ufer - Das HU In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 305.
5. ↑ Siegfried Rambaum: name extract of individuals with birth places in Neumark (or nearby locations outside thereof) from "The expatriation German citizen 1933-45, according to published in Reichsanzeiger lists - Expatriation selection as Published in the Reich Gazette 1933-45" Munich, New York , London, Paris; 1985 ; Transliteration ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Association for Computer Genealogy 
6. ^ Kantorowicz, Ernst. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 13: Jaco-Kerr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-22693-4 , p. 243f.

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