George Rublee

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George Rublee (born July 7, 1868 in Madison, Wisconsin , † April 26, 1957 in New York City ) was an American lawyer. He worked on constitutional and international law and was the initiator of the Rublee-Wohlthat-Plan .

Life

Portrait of George Rublee

Rublee was born in 1868 to Horace Rublee (1829-1896) and Kate Hopkins (1833-1921) in Madison (Wisconsin). His father was a journalist, Republican party leader in Wisconsin and ambassador to Switzerland . After attending Phillips Exeter Academy and the Groton School, George Rublee studied at Harvard , where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1890 and his Bachelor of Laws in 1895.

As a result, Rublee worked as a lawyer in Washington, DC and from 1915 a member of the Federal Trade Commission .

As an American delegate, he was a member of the Allied Maritime Transport Council from around 1918 . He was also an advisor to the government of Colombia.

In August 1938 Rublee became executive director of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (ICR) together with Robert Pell . In this function he negotiated from December 1938 with the German Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht and with the German ministerial director Helmuth Wohlthat about the planning of a program for the "emigration of Jews of German nationality and stateless Jews from Germany" ( Rublee-Wohlthat-Plan ).

Rublee resigned as Executive Director of the ICR after 6 months.

From 1899 until his death in 1957 he was married to Juliet Barrett (1875-1966).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Rublee in the Notable Names Database , accessed December 24, 2013.
  2. ^ "George Rublee, Lawyer Here, To Direct Parley on Refugees", article in the Washington Post. August 4, 1938, accessed December 23, 2013 .
  3. ^ Rolf Vogel (ed.): A stamp was missing. Documents on the emigration of German Jews. Munich / Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-426-05602-X , pp. 184-187
  4. ↑ "The Man For The Job." Washington Post article. August 10, 1938, accessed December 23, 2013 .
  5. ^ Announcement in English by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, dated January 11, 1939 , Schacht Plan to Form Basis of Rublee Talks, Opening in Berlin Today
  6. ↑ English-language book "Guide to the YIVO Archives" , YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, 1998, ISBN 0-7656-0130-3 , page 143, collection no. 547. (14 microfilms, RG 562), report from 11 January 1939
personal data
SURNAME Rublee, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Madison (Wisconsin)
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1957
Place of death New York City