Hans Robinsohn

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Hans Robinsohn (born March 2, 1897 in Hamburg ; † April 28, 1981 there ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Hans Robinsohn was born as the son of a Jewish merchant family who moved from Posen to Hamburg in 1892 and opened a fashion store for women and children there on Neuen Wall 25–31. The brothers Max and Leo Robinsohn celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Robinsohn fashion house with 700 employees in 1932. Max was the older of the two founders and the father of Hans, who grew up in a liberal Jewish family. Hans' mother was the writer and translator Therese Robinsohn .

Robinsohn studied law and economics in Berlin, Munich and Göttingen and completed his studies with a doctorate in Hamburg. At the age of 25, he married Else (1898–1978) from Denmark in 1922 and in the same year became an employee of the family's own fashion house, the Robinsohn brothers. Three years later he received power of attorney in 1925, and in 1933 he became a co-owner. In 1925 and 1927 Hans had two children named Franz Peter (1925–1997) and Susanne (1927–2008). Until the forced Aryanization on March 30, 1939, he managed the family-owned fashion house Gebrüder Robinsohn, Hamburg, with branches in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt am Main, among others.

In 1918 he joined the liberal German Democratic Party , whose youth association Young Democrats he co-founded. Here he met Ernst Strassmann , with whom he advocated the protection of the republic in the 1920s. Together with Strassmann and the Berlin journalist Oskar Stark, Robinsohn founded the Robinsohn-Strassmann group in 1934 , which had set itself the task of collecting news and informing foreign countries about the existence of resistance groups among the German civilian population. In 1938 Robinsohn emigrated to Denmark and from there made contacts in England. When the deportation of the Jews in Denmark was imminent in 1943 , Robinsohn was able to flee to Sweden with the help of Danish resistance fighters. After the end of the war he returned from Sweden to Copenhagen and worked there as an employee of an insurance company until, after twenty years, in 1958 at the age of 61, he decided to return to Hamburg. The compensation procedure he successfully pursued after 1945 at least solved the material problems. It was important to him that the National Socialist judgments for racial disgrace were overturned. In 1938, after the so-called Reichskristallnacht, his 75-year-old father Max and his 70-year-old uncle Leo, both living in Hamburg at the time and senior bosses of the Robinsohn brothers' fashion house, were arrested and legal proceedings were opened for racial disgrace. Leo Robinsohn was released from custody after eight months without explanation. Max, his father, was charged but only acquitted for lack of evidence. From 1960 to 1965, Hans worked under the managing historian Werner Jochmann in the newly established research center for the history of National Socialism in Hamburg. His scientific work demonstrated the compliance of the judiciary with National Socialist ideology, impressively demonstrated by the example of the offense " racial disgrace " created by the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 and which, as a crime in the penal code, offered a convenient way of destroying bourgeois livelihoods. This was particularly the case under Hans Globke (1898–1973), who was head of the Federal Chancellery under Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer from 1953 to 1963 and who was previously co-author and commentator of the Nuremberg Race Laws during the Nazi era in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. Hans Robinsohn was also a member of the Humanist Union , of which he was chairman from 1973 to 1975.

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  1. ↑ The family history of Hans Robinsohn ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeitgeschichte-hamburg.de
  2. ^ The Aryanization of Hamburg
  3. ^ Aryanization documents about the forced sale of the Hamburg fashion house Gebrüder Robinsohn to Jung & Ferley KG, Hamburg
  4. ↑ Dissertation on the appraisal report on the Aryanization of the Robinsohn brothers' fashion house
  5. ^ Photo AA 3347 of the Hamburg fashion house Gebrüder Robinsohn, Hamburg, Neuer Wall corner Schleusenbrücke

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SURNAME Robinsohn, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1981
Place of death Hamburg