Fritz Lamm (lawyer)

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Fritz Lamm (born December 21, 1876 in Görlitz ; † December 3, 1942 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German civil servant in the welfare and youth welfare office of the Jewish community in Berlin . As a lawyer , he fought for the rights of orphaned Jewish children during the National Socialist era . In 1942 he was shot as a hostage in exchange for refugee Jewish colleagues on the orders of the Gestapo .

Life

Fritz Lamm grew up as the son of the businessman Julius Lamm and his wife Friederike geb. Prager in Görlitz, where he graduated from high school in 1896 with the Abitur. After studying law in Berlin and Munich , he did his military service with the Queen Elisabeth Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3 in Charlottenburg from autumn 1901 . In 1907, after he had passed the second (major) state examination, he was employed as a court assessor at the district courts of Grünberg , Ratibor and Rybnik , then at the Chamber of Commerce in Berlin. Finally, he received his doctorate in 1909 with the commercial and civil law professor Karl August Heinsheimer (1869–1929) in Heidelberg .

From October 1908, Lamm was a legal advisor (at that time called "auxiliary worker", the common name for scientific staff ) at the Jewish community in Berlin. Together with Martin Simon and Wilhelm Feilchenfeld, he initially worked there in the poor commission. At the same time he was a lawyer at the Schöneberg District Court , later at the Berlin  I Regional Court , and also a notary.

In 1913 he organized a collective guardianship for Jewish children without parents. In 1924 he became the syndic of the community, soon also deputy chairman of the welfare and youth welfare office at Rosenstrasse 2-4 in Berlin-Mitte - the building that became known in 1943 through the Rosenstrasse protest . He represented his protégés as a lawyer and, for example, obtained the maintenance they were entitled to and orphan's pensions. Between 1913 and 1938 3500 wards were looked after by the collective guardianship; Lamm and his employees provided support, arranged the care for orphans or children of needy single mothers, who were supported and advised at the same time. There were consultation hours twice a week; Host families and adoptions were arranged, day nurseries and health care organized. Home placement was only seen as a last resort.

"He took on all subject areas with devoted zeal and great love," wrote his superior Heinrich Stahl in 1936 on Lamm's 60th birthday.

When the Gestapo announced the deportation of over 500 people from the Reichsvereinigung and the municipal administration in October 1942 , some of them fled. As threatened, the Nazi authorities took 20 hostages. As one of eight of these hostages, Fritz Lamm was shot shortly afterwards, on December 3rd, in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Oranienburg.

Hans Rosenthal and his brother Gert were wards under Fritz Lamm's collective guardianship.

Fonts

  • The relationship between the conversion and the contestation of the purchase due to error or fraud and the permissibility of the conversion before the goods are handed over. Dissertation. University of Heidelberg 1909. Preuss, Berlin 1909.
  • Five years of collective guardianship of the Berlin Jewish Community. In: Community newspaper of the Jewish community in Berlin. Vol. 9, No. 8, August 8, 1919, p. 65.
  • From the history of the poor administration of the Jewish community in Berlin. Schmitz & Bukofzer, Berlin 1913.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lamm, Fritz, lawyer . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, part 1, p. 1561.
  2. ^ Fritz Lamm: Twenty-five years of collective guardianship. In: Community newspaper of the Jewish community in Berlin. Vol. 28, No. 43, October 23, 1938, p. 3
  3. ^ Heinrich Stahl: Fritz Lamm 60 years old. In: Community Gazette of the Jewish Community in Berlin. Vol. 26, No. 51, December 20, 1936, p. 3
  4. ↑ yadvashem.org
personal data
SURNAME Lamb, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and guardian for orphaned Jewish children in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1942
Place of death Sachsenhausen concentration camp