Ernst Katzenstein

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Ernst Katzenstein ( February 11, 1897 in Bodenwerder - October 19, 1989 in Tel Aviv ) was a lawyer and Zionist .

Life

Ernst Katzenstein's parents were Moses Katzenstein (born 1847) and Elfriede, born. Frankenstein (born 1866) who had two younger daughters. His father ran a small banking business. In 1908 the family moved to Hameln . After graduating from the municipal grammar school, Ernst Katzenstein studied law in Heidelberg, Munich and Göttingen. In 1924 he settled as a lawyer in Hamelin Deisterstraße. He became chairman of the small local Zionist group, to which the dentist Hermann Gradnauer also belonged. He supported Gradnauer financially in preparing the emigration of young Zionists from Kibbutz Cheruth to Palestine and gave lectures to the kibbutz members . Due to his commitment, he was repeatedly the target of anonymous telephone abuse. He married Hildegard Ilberg from Wolfenbüttel. Their son Michael, born in 1929, became a pediatrician. Katzenstein followed the advice of a judge at the Hameln District Court to better disappear from Hameln for a few days on April 1, 1933. As a Jew, he lost his license to practice as a lawyer at the Hanover Regional Court in May or June 1933 , and then at the Hameln District Court. In August he moved to Berlin to prepare for his emigration to Palestine in May 1935. He was allowed to take 4000 RM with him; Taxes were levied on the emigrant blocked credit until 1942. In 1936 he made his bar exam in Israel and completed 1936-1939 training as a barrister in London. In 1939 he established himself as a lawyer in Jerusalem. After 1945 he worked for various Jewish organizations in Germany. As a specialist in the problem of reparation , he was instrumental in shaping the Federal Republic of Germany's Law on Compensation and Restitution. In 1949 he worked for the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO) in Nuremberg and in 1952 its general director. In 1956 he became director of the Jewish Claims Conference in Germany. In 1988 he returned to Israel for health reasons.

Fonts (selection)

  • Jewish claims conference and the reparation of National Socialist injustice , in: Hans Jochen Vogel, Helmut Simon and Adalbert Podlech (eds.): The freedom of the other: Festschrift for Martin Hirsch . Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1981

literature

  • Bernhard Gelderblom : "Expert" for all questions of reparation - Dr. Ernst Katzenstein in: The Jews of Hameln from their beginnings in the 13th century to their extermination by the Nazi regime , Holzminden, 2011, pp. 165–166

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933. = International biographical dictionary of Central European emigrés. Volume 1: Politics, Economy, Public Life. Published by the Institute for Contemporary History Munich and the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration. Saur, Munich et al. 1980, ISBN 3-598-10088-4 , p. 354 .
  2. ^ Simone Ladwig-Winters: Lawyer Without Law ; P. 128
  3. ↑ Dr. Hermann Gradnauer (March 17, 1894 Wolfenbüttel - November 2, 1972 Israel) ( Memento from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ The Kibbutz Cheruth
  5. ↑ Lower Saxony State Archives Entry Ernst Katzenstein, RA (February 11, 1897 Bodenwerder - October 19, 1989 Israel)
personal data
SURNAME Katzenstein, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Zionist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bodenwerder
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1989
Place of death Tel Aviv