Fritz Ballin

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Fritz Simon Ballin (born April 1, 1879 in Munich ; died December 25, 1939 ) was a German lawyer and diplomat .

Life

Fritz Ballin was the son of the royal Bavarian councilor and consul Siegfried Ballin (1850-1917) and his wife Leontine nee Rosenthal. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the universities of Munich , Geneva , Berlin and Erlangen. At the latter university he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. The topic of his dissertation was excess and putative self-defense . He then worked as a lawyer in Munich from 1906. In 1928 he was appointed to the judiciary .

From 1907 Ballin was Vice Consul for Brazil , from 1921 Consul for Venezuela . In Munich he was second chairman of the diplomatic corps and chairman of the Jewish cultural association. He was a member of the Free German Hochstift and, as a Freemason, belonged to a lodge of the Humanitarian Eclectic League . In 1913 he wrote the play Föhn , he also wrote theater, concert and art reviews.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the inquiries and orders declined significantly to his law firm. In June 1936 he gave up and emigrated with his family to London , where he worked as an advisor on foreign law until his death. He died on Christmas 1939.

family

On July 8, 1910, he married Rosenmeyer, born in Strasbourg Sidonie, daughter of a Strasbourg factory owner. The children Hanns Heinz (* 1913) and Gerdatis (* 1907) emerged from their marriage

Works (selection)

  • Emergency excess and putative self-defense , Erlangen, 1902.
  • Hairdryer. Play in three acts , Berlin: Neuer Deutscher Verlag, 1913.
  • The tasks of the Jüdischer Kulturbund in Bavaria , in: Bayerische Israelitische Gemeindezeitung from March 15, 1934, page 109.

Honors

His name is on the plaque commemorating the Jewish lawyers who were disenfranchised and persecuted during the Nazi era in the Munich Palace of Justice .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Zils: Intellectual and artistic Munich in autobiographies , Kellerer: Munich 1913, p. 10.
  2. ↑ In the organ of his grand lodge, he critically reviewed the portrayal of Freemasonry in Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" ( Thomas Mann and the Freemasons . In: Eklektisches Bundesblatt 6 (1930), pp. 238–242). May 1930 replied (Yvonne Schmidlin, Hans Bürgin, Hans-Otto Mayer (ed.): The letters of Thomas Mann. Regesten and Register. Volume 1: The letters from 1889 to 1933, S. Fischer: Frankfurt am Main 1977, p. 587 ).
personal data
SURNAME Ballin, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ballin, Fritz Simon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and consul
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1939
Place of death London