Friedrich Leyden

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Friedrich Leyden , born as Friedrich Levy , (born March 3, 1891 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † January 30, 1944 in Ghetto Theresienstadt ) was a German geographer and diplomat in the Weimar Republic .

Life

Friedrich Levy's father Emil Levy was Professor of Romance Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , his mother Rosette, b. van Praag was a Dutch woman. Levy attended the Bertholdsgymnasium and studied geography from 1909 at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin and Munich, where he received his doctorate in 1913 under Erich von Drygalski . From February 1915 he did military service in the First World War with the military police in the Belgian-Dutch border area in Turnhout . From November 1918 to 1921 he worked scientifically at the University of Freiburg and published the results in his own series, the "Ostalpinen Formenstudien". His further academic career and habilitation was prevented because of his Jewish name.

Levy was drafted into the Foreign Service in March 1922 . At that point he changed his family name to Leyden, which was the necessary consequence of the experience he had had . In 1925 he married Ilse Müssigbrodt. In addition to a nearly two-year assignment as Vice Consul in the Consulate General in Naples around 1926, Leyden was deployed to the Foreign Office in Berlin, where he was only promoted to Legation Secretary . Leyden continued to conduct geographical studies, now on Flanders and the Netherlands, and also gave scientific lectures in the geographical circles in Berlin. His stay in Italy culminated in geographical introductions to Italian volumes of Meyer's travel books and articles in the Große Herder . He wrote articles about the political situation in Fascist Italy under the pseudonym Franz Rassel . He made his place of residence Berlin accessible in the geographic book about Greater Berlin .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was removed from civil service in February. Leyden moved to the Netherlands, where he continued to work scientifically as a private scholar under adverse circumstances and now published in the Dutch language. Leyden was followed racially after the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940 and in April 1943 in the Theresienstadt ghetto deported . For Alfred Philippson , who was also imprisoned in Theresienstadt , Leyden was the only professional colleague on site.

Fonts (selection)

The list of publications at Creutzburg lists 99 titles.
  • Greater Berlin. Geography of the cosmopolitan city . Hirt, Breslau 1933. Reprint 1995
  • The population density in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in its distribution according to the individual municipalities and in its relationship to the housing density and the house density in the three states . Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1929
  • The cities of the Flemish country . Stuttgart: J. Engelhorns Nf., 1924
  • The depopulation of the inner city in the larger cities of Holland. Tijdschrift Voor Economische Geografie 1935, pp. 168–192

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 , pp. 69f
  • Nikolaus Creutzburg : Friedrich Leyden: a German geographer . In: Die Erde , Volume II, 1950/51, pp. 339–347. reproduced paraphrased in: Joachim Schlör : Das Ich der Stadt. Debates on Judaism and Urbanity. 1822-1938 . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005 ISBN 3-525-56990-4 Habil. Frankfurt am Main 2003. S. 320f

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Creutzburg cautiously writes a role played
  2. ^ A b Nikolaus Creutzburg: Friedrich Leyden: a German geographer . Pp. 339-347
  3. ↑ Creutzburg writes voluntarily
  4. ^ Transport XXIV / 1, č. 257 (April 22, 1943 Amsterdam → Terezín). Friedrich Leyden  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at holocaust.cz@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.holocaust.cz  
  5. ↑ Joachim Schlör: Das Ich der Stadt: Debates on Judaism and Urbanity. 1822-1938 . P. 320
personal data
SURNAME Leyden, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levy, Friedrich (maiden name); Rassel, Franz (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1944
Place of death Theresienstadt ghetto