Harald Hansen (lawyer)

Harald Hansen (March 14, 1882 - April 4, 1940 ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Harald Hansen worked as a lawyer at the Reichsgericht on the approval of the competent authorities of the Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck from January 9, 1919 to December 1 or 8, 1939 with singular approval . In Leipzig in the 1930s he had friendly contact with, among others, the Jewish professor Erwin Jacobi and the historian Karl Buchheim ; the Hansen couple kept their private house in Leipzig open to the persecuted. Hansen returned his admission to the bar in 1939 on health grounds.

Harald Hansen was born in 1926 with Dora. May, born Married April 18, 1884 in Hamburg (in a mixed marriage according to National Socialist diction ). His widow Dora Hansen was deported to the Riga ghetto on January 21, 1942, one day after the Wannsee Conference , and shot there in July 1944 together with 300 other inmates. Her diary from the camp was preserved and excerpts were published by Gerda Gottschalk in 1991 under the title The Last Way . Hansen was a cousin of the painter Sophus Hansen , who temporarily lived in his Hamburg house on Süllberg in Hamburg-Blankenese .

literature

• Steffen Held: Jewish university professors and students at the Leipzig Faculty of Law , in: Stephan Wendehorst (Ed.): Building blocks of a Jewish history of the University of Leipzig , Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2006, p. 229 ( digitized version )
• Hubert Lang: Between All Chairs - Jurists of Jewish Origin in Leipzig 1848–1953 , Leipzig 2014, pp. 188 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Transport list at www.statistik-des-holocaust.de
2. ^ Stefen Held: Jüdische Hochschullehrer ... , p. 229; Micha Braun, Günther Heeg, Helmut Schäfer, Lars Krüger: Reenacting History: Theater & Geschichte , Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2014, note 24