Hans Krailsheimer

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Hans Krailsheimer (born January 29, 1888 in Nuremberg , † January 12, 1958 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and writer who is best known for his aphorisms .

Life

Hans Krailsheimer studied law in Geneva, Munich, Berlin and Würzburg. In 1917 he obtained his doctorate and was admitted to the bar in Erlangen . In the following years he worked primarily as a lawyer for business associations.

emigration

On September 12, 1933, Krailsheimer was withdrawn due to the law on admission to the bar and in October 1933 he emigrated via Czechoslovakia to Switzerland and on to France. In 1938 he was expatriated from the German Reich. He was interned from 1939 to 1941 and after the partial occupation of France, he fled to the unoccupied part of the country.

post war period

From 1945 Krailsheimer earned his living from grants he received from Jewish organizations. He only returned to Munich in 1954, where he died four years later.

Quotes (selection)

  • "The most dangerous thing about half-truths is that the wrong half is almost always believed."
  • "Having to be alone is the hardest thing, being alone is the best."
  • "On the stage the mask is determined by the role, in life the role is determined by the mask."
  • "An idea that has run out as a truth can still have a great career as a catchphrase."
  • "There is a particularly unsympathetic kind of arrogance, humility."
  • "Talents find solutions, geniuses discover problems."

reception

"A master in the art of aphorism, a poet and philosopher and a gracious, extremely humble person."

- The time of February 13, 1958

Works

  • Exchange futures trading and current account transactions. Nuremberg 1917.
  • The ordinance on the Reich Economic Court of May 21, 1920. Schmalfeldt, Berlin 1920.
  • There is no way out either. Ernst Heimeran , Munich 1954.
  • Aporisms. Franconian Bibliophile Society, 1957.

literature

  • Letter from Hans Krailsheimer to Ernst Heimeran , 1953.
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar Nekrolog 1936-1970. Gruyter Berlin.
  • Berd Mertens, Margareta Feketitsch-Weber: The revocation of doctoral degrees at the Law Faculty of the University of Erlangen during National Socialism. Erlangen Research Special Series Volume 15, Erlangen 2010, ISBN 3-930-3579-92 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Reinhard Weber: The fate of the Jewish lawyers in Bavaria after 1933. Walter de Gruyter 2006, ISBN 3-486-8408-6X , p. 282.
  2. ↑ zeit.de Retrieved December 10, 2017
  3. ↑ http://kalliope.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/de/ead?ead.id=DE-611-HS-1067230
personal data
SURNAME Krailsheimer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1958
Place of death Munich