Fritz Manasse

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Fritz Manasse (born November 3, 1904 in Dramburg , Pomerania Province , † October 14, 2006 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer.

Life

First years

Fritz Manasse was the son of a long-established merchant family in Dramburg in Pomerania . He initially studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin from 1923 to 1925 , switched to the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau for a year and then returned to Berlin. He belonged to the Jewish student union Sprevia and the Breslauer Thuringia . At that time he worked as a cab driver, as an educator in the Reichenheim orphanage and as a legal advisor to the Luo accumulator factory . In 1929 he passed his first state examination and did a legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal . In October 1933 - nine months after the seizure of power of the Nazis - he passed his second examination. At the same time he received the official notification that as a Jew he had no prospect of being accepted into the state judicial service. In an urgent procedure, he managed to do his doctorate at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald in 1934 . In view of the political circumstances, he had already prepared his dissertation on the occupation of housing by the unemployed before the state exams.

emigration

In 1935 Fritz Manasse emigrated to South Africa and three years later moved on to Palestine . Without a religious ceremony, he married his childhood friend Käthe Loewy , a former judge at the Berlin District Court, in the German consulate in 1938 , who had been dismissed there in 1938 due to the law to restore the civil service and was able to flee to Palestine. The couple lived in Haifa . Since lawyers with German exams could not work there as lawyers, Fritz Manasse ensured his livelihood as a bookseller and as an insurance employee for the New Zealand Insurance Company. Meanwhile, Käthe Manasse worked as a private secretary for the writer Arnold Zweig, who also emigrated .

return

Four years after the end of the war , the couple returned to Germany and took up residence in Hamburg. Fritz Manasse opened a law practice, which he led successfully until his death. In 1949 he rejoined the Jewish community, although he was not very religious. He was particularly committed to the reopening of the Israelite Hospital on Orchideenstieg in Hamburg-Alsterdorf . In 1961, Federal President Heinrich Lübke presented him with the Federal Cross of Merit for his services . Käthe Manasse died in 1994. At the age of over a hundred, Fritz Manasse went to his office every day. He died in 2006. The couple's written estate can be found in the Jewish Museum Berlin .

Honors (selection)

Fonts

  • The Neukölln unemployment case . Dissertation. Greifswald 1934.

literature

  • Günter Bertram: Lawyer Dr. Fritz Manasse turns one hundred . In: Communications from the Hamburg Judges' Association . 2004 pp. 16-18.
  • The Fritz and Käthe Manasse collection in the Jewish Museum Berlin, lot / 158, mainly comprises legal documents from 1900 to 1994, but also some real objects

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The photo of the handover is in the Jewish Museum Berlin