Hans Joachim Hinrichsen

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Hans Joachim Hinrichsen ( August 22, 1909 in Leipzig - September 27, 1940 in Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales) ) was a German lawyer and music publisher.

Life

Talstrasse 10 in Leipzig , home of Hans Joachim Hinrichsen and headquarters of Edition Peters
Stumbling blocks for Hans Joachim Hinrichsen and his family in front of the Talstr. 10
Family grave and memorial stone in the south cemetery (Leipzig)

Hans Joachim Hinrichsen was the fifth child and third son of the music publisher Henri Hinrichsen and his wife Martha geb. Bendix (1879-1941). He had two sisters and four brothers, including Max Hinrichsen and Walter Hinrichsen . His paternal ancestors were descended from Ruben Henriques, a Sephardic who came to Glückstadt in 1646 and whose descendants were court agents in Mecklenburg-Schwerin for several generations .

He attended the Nikolaischule in Leipzig until his Abitur in 1928 and studied law at the universities of Leipzig, Freiburg i. Br. And Munich. In Leipzig he was in November 1934 with a dissertation on the musical copyright to Dr. jur. PhD.

In preparation for joining the management of the family business CF Peters , he did various internships at music publishers and large-scale retailers such as Hofmeister-Figaro and L. Doblinger in Vienna and Foetisch Frères in Lausanne . Travel through Europe and a longer stay in London followed .

In October 1935 he joined the company as an authorized signatory . Under the pressure of increasing marginalization and the persecution of Jews , his brother Walter emigrated to the USA at the end of 1936 and his brother Max to Great Britain in 1937. At the age of 28, Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen became a partner alongside his father, and then also a managing director and manager.

The publishing house was attacked in connection with the November pogroms in 1938; Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen was excluded from the Reichsmusikkammer a little later , which meant a professional ban. In 1938 and 1939 there were two brief incarcerations, including in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . The publishing house was forcibly aryanized in the summer of 1939 .

Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen was only able to leave Germany in March 1940 and met his parents in Brussels . After the beginning of the western campaign and the German invasion of Belgium, he was deported to the internment camp St. Cyprien in Perpignan in the summer of 1940, where he died of typhus after a short time . His parents, his brother Paul and his brother-in-law Ludwig Frankenthal were also victims of the Shoah .

memory

Four stumbling blocks in front of the Talstrasse house remind of the fate of Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen and his family . 10 in Leipzig.

Works

  • The transfer of musical copyright to music publishers and music collecting societies. Leipzig: Peters 1934, also: Leipzig, Jur. Diss.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erika Bucholtz: Henri Hinrichsen and the music publisher CF Peters: German-Jewish bourgeoisie in Leipzig from 1891 to 1938. (= series of scientific treatises of the Leo Baeck Institute 65 ISSN  0459-097X ) Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2001 ISBN 9783161476389 , p. 303f
  2. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​Leipzig , accessed on December 9, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hinrichsen, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1940
Place of death Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales)