Hans Fraenkel

Hans Fraenkel (born June 12, 1888 in Hamburg , † July 25, 1971 in Zurich ) was a German journalist and writer.

Life

Fraenkel came as the second of three children of the physician Eugen Fraenkel (1853–1925) and his wife Marie, née. German, (1861–1944) zur Welt. He was a correspondent for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and various Austrian and Czech newspapers in Italy. Due to the National Socialist persecution because of his Jewish origin, he emigrated to France in 1938. He was interned in the Les Milles prison camp. He was in contact with Pastor Adolf Freudenberg through pastor Henri Manen and helped to build the Protestant community in the camp.

After the end of World War II he went to Switzerland, where he worked as a journalist and writer.

Honors

• 1965: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

• The deportation of the Jews from the unoccupied zone (August 21, 1942). In: France's German emigrants. Texts and memories of Jacques Grandjonc (1933–2000) . Edited by Doris Obschernitzki. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2000. ISBN 3-933471-36-2 , pp. 211-220.

literature

• Renate Heuer : Bibliographia Judaica: Directory of Jewish authors in the German language. Volume 1. Kraus, Munich 1981–1996.
• Jacques Grandjonc, Theresia Grundtner (transl.): Zone d'ombres 1933–1944: exil et internement d'Allemands et d'Autrichiens dans le sud-est de la France. Alinéa, 1990. In German: Zone of Uncertainty. Exile and internment in the south of France 1933-1944. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-499-19138-5 .
• Hans Fraenkel . In: France's German emigrants. Texts and memories of Jacques Grandjonc (1933–2000) . Edited by Doris Obschernitzki. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2000. ISBN 3-933471-36-2 , pp. 208-210.