Fritz Goldschmidt

Fritz Goldschmidt (born November 13, 1893 in Breslau ; died August 1968 in London ) was President of the Senate at the Supreme Court .

Family and education

Fritz Goldschmidt was the son of Hermann Bruno Alfred Goldschmidt (born November 20, 1865 in Breslau, died 1934 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf) and Franziska Ehrenfried (born February 17, 1869 in Wreschen). His younger brother Carl Heinz Goldschmidt was born in Breslau in 1895. He was married and had two children who were born in Germany and lived in England from 1939.

Fritz Goldschmidt attended grammar school in Königshütte (Upper Silesia) and from 1912 studied German literature, history and philosophy in Breslau . He began his legal studies in Berlin in 1913 . He was unfit for the military due to a permanent weakness in his left arm. In 1916 he passed his legal doctoral and legal traineeship examinations. He spent his time as an assessor in Freystadt (Silesia) and Berlin, and passed the second state law examination in 1920.

Judge work

After working as an assistant judge at various Berlin courts, Fritz Goldschmidt became a district judge at the Berlin-Weißensee district court in 1926 and later became an assistant judge in the civil senate of the higher court , which dealt with the legal consequences of the upgrade . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he was given leave of absence on March 31, 1933 by the President of the Chamber Court. After the war, Goldschmidt was promoted to the position of Senate President at the Supreme Court by way of reparation .

Political activity

During his studies in Breslau in 1912/1913 Goldschmidt belonged to a German-oriented Jewish association founded by his father in 1886. He was a member of the Republican Judges' Association and since 1926 chairman of the Charlottenburg branch of the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith .

Life from 1933

From July 1933 Goldschmidt fought against the professional bans for Jewish doctors. He was torn from his work on November 11, 1938, and was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. On November 25, 1938, he was released from the concentration camp on condition that he emigrate immediately. He continued to work in the Reich Representation for Jews in Germany and was entrusted with the liquidation of the Jewish Central Association.

Fritz Goldschmidt received a visa for England for himself and his two children on July 30, 1939 . After the war he worked on reparations and held a managerial position at the United Restitution Organization . He lived in England with his wife until his death. He died in August 1968 as a result of a traffic accident in London.

Fonts

• My work in representing the interests of Jewish doctors in Germany since July 1933 (= work report on buried alternatives in health policy. No. 2, ZDB -ID 1213080-1 ). University of Bremen, Bremen 1979.

literature

• Stephan Leibfried: Fritz Goldschmidt (1893–1968). Attorney for the persecuted Jewish doctors. In: Jürgen Seifert (Ed.): Controversial lawyers. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1988, ISBN 3-7890-1580-6 , p. 318 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Family database Jews in the northern part of the former German Reich, family report.
2. ^ Stephan Leibfried: Fritz Goldschmidt (1893–1968). Attorney for the persecuted Jewish doctors. In: Jürgen Seifert (Ed.): Controversial lawyers. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1988, ISBN 3-7890-1580-6 , p. 318 ff., Here p. 319.