Fritz Ernst Oppenheimer

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Fritz Ernst Oppenheimer (born March 10, 1898 in Berlin ; died February 6, 1968 in Nairobi , Kenya ) was a German-American lawyer.

Life

Fritz Ernst Oppenheimer was one of several children of the lawyer Ernst Oppenheimer and Amalie Friedländer. He was a soldier in World War I from 1915 to 1918 , was wounded and received an award. He then studied law in Berlin, Freiburg im Breisgau, received his doctorate in Breslau in 1922 and studied in Paris and London. He worked in his father's law firm from 1925 and ran it after his father's death from 1929. Oppenheimer specialized in international law . He married Elsbeth Kaulla and they had two children.

Oppenheimer received after the handover of power to the Nazis in 1933 as a notary for racist reasons, a prohibition , but was allowed because of the front-line fighters privilege in his law practice under the economic and political limitations of German anti-Semitism continue to 1936th In 1937 he emigrated with the family to England and from there to New York City in 1940 , where he was accepted into the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. In 1943 he volunteered for service in the United States Army and thus received US citizenship. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

As legal advisor to General Lucius D. Clay , who became military governor of the American zone of occupation in Germany in 1947 , he influenced political developments in occupied Germany and the denazification process . Oppenheimer took part in meetings of the Allied Council of Foreign Ministers, in 1947 he was with General George C. Marshall in Moscow and London, in 1948 with Dean Acheson in Paris, he was Deputy Foreign Minister in the drafting of an Austrian peace treaty and in 1948 an advisor at the Six Power Conference Germany in London. After 1949 he worked in his own law firm in New York and had consulting assignments at the London Debt Conference , the validation of the German dollar bonds and the reorganization of the German coal, steel and iron industries .

Oppenheimer was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations , the International Law Association , American Society of International Law , Barrister of the Inner Temple in London and the New York City Bar Association .

He retired in 1957, which he spent in Palo Alto , California . He died in an accident while on vacation in East Africa .

Fonts

  • Trading companies as members of personal companies . Breslau, R.- u. state science Diss., 1922

literature

  • Oppenheimer, Fritz Ernst , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 . Volume 1: Politics, Economy, Public Life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 542
  • Oppenheimer, Fritz Ernst , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 289
  • Ernst C. Stiefel , Frank Mecklenburg: German lawyers in American exile (1933–1950) . Tübingen: Mohr, 1991 ISBN 3-16-145688-2 , pp. 129ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Oppenheimer, Fritz Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1968
Place of death Nairobi