Erwin Lichtenstein

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Erwin Lichtenstein (born February 16, 1901 in Königsberg, Prussia ; died March 22, 1993 in Tel Aviv ) was a German-Israeli lawyer.

Life

Erwin Lichtenstein was a son of the Königsberg lawyer and politician Max Lichtenstein (1860-1942), his aunt Thea Lichtenstein (1869-1937) was the wife of the social democratic politician Hugo Haase . In 1919 Lichtenstein became a member of the German-Jewish Wanderbund Kameraden and edited its magazine. He studied law in Königsberg, Berlin and Leipzig and received his doctorate in Königsberg in 1922 with a dissertation on the Barcelona Transport Conference in 1921 . From 1922 he was the syndic of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith (CV) for the territory of the East Prussia province . Lichtenstein married Lotte Hirschberg (1902–1992) from Danzig, they had three children, their son Zvi Snunit (1933–1966) became a composer in Israel. From 1923 to 1926 he was editor of the Jewish weekly newspaper Danziger Rundschau . From 1923 to 1928 he was deputy chairman of the League for Human Rights in Gdansk and took part in international congresses in Paris and Warsaw. He took the assessor exam in Berlin in 1930 and then worked as a lawyer in Königsberg.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was banned from working in Königsberg and moved to Danzig , which was separated from the German Reich under international law. There he became the syndic of the synagogue community and editor of the Jüdischer Gemeindeblatt. He organized the escape of the Danzig Jews.

Lichtenstein fled to Palestine in 1939 and initially lived there as a bookseller. In 1951 he passed an Israeli bar exam and in 1953 he opened a law practice in Tel Aviv . He dealt with the legal status of the Danzig Jews in German reparation law . In 1973 he published the book about the Jews of the Free City of Danzig under the rule of National Socialism for the Leo Baeck Institute .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Barcelona Transport Conference: (March 10 - April 20, 1921) . Koenigsberg i. P. 1922. Königsberg, R.- u. state science Diss., 1922
  • For the interpretation of Section 43 (2) sentence 2 , jurisprudence on reparation (RzW), 1962, p. 534
  • Die Juden in Danzig (1933–1939) , in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden 4 (1967) 1, pp. 199–217
  • Compensation for internment in Mauritius , jurisprudence on reparation (RzW), 1968, p. 247
  • The Jews of the Free City of Danzig under the rule of National Socialism . Tübingen: Mohr, 1973
  • The Kulturbund der Juden in Danzig 1933–1938 , in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden 10 (1973) 3/4, pp. 181–190
  • Report to my family - A life between Gdansk and Israel . Epilogue Günter Grass . Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1985

literature

  • Lichtenstein, Erwin , in: Joseph Walk : Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 234
  • Lichtenstein, Erwin , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economics, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 442f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Schüler-Springorum : The Jewish minority in Königsberg, Prussia: 1871 - 1945 . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996 ISBN 3-525-36049-5 , p. 387
personal data
SURNAME Lichtenstein, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg in Prussia
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1993
Place of death Tel Aviv