Heinrich Kronstein

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Heinrich David Kronstein (born September 12, 1897 in Karlsruhe , † September 26, 1972 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer, lawyer and university professor.

Life

Childhood, education and employment in the German Reich

Kronstein came from a respected and wealthy Jewish family from Karlsruhe . He did his military service in World War I and suffered a serious wound. He later took up law studies in Heidelberg and Berlin . Kronstein received his doctorate in 1924 under Martin Wolff in Berlin. He then worked as a lawyer in Mannheim , where he founded the "Kronstein Zutt Law Firm" together with Wilhelm Zutt in 1931 and specialized in patent law . Until 1935 he was able to work as a lawyer in Germany. a. in handling the sale of Jewish companies (" Aryanization ").

Exile in the USA

At the end of 1935, Kronstein and his family emigrated to the USA and initially tried to work as a consultant for foreign law in New York City . He studied law in New York from 1936 again ( Columbia University ) with a Bachelor of Laws degree. In 1939 he moved to Washington, received his doctorate a second time in 1940 from Georgetown University Law School in Washington, completed the "bar exam" for international law in 1941 and became "Professor of Comparative Law".

From 1936 onwards, Kronstein worked as a freelancer for the United States Department of Justice , as a translator and reviewer. In 1941, after acquiring US citizenship, he was appointed a permanent Special Attorney. Kronstein initially or mainly worked for the "Claims Division". Because of his special knowledge of patent law and patent cartels and because of his origin from Germany, Kronstein was considered a cartel expert in the Ministry of Justice . Because he had concerns about having to confiscate German assets after the USA entered the war, he moved to the “ Antitrust ” department under Thurman Arnold in early 1942 . He had already worked for this department before: In January 1940, Kronstein testified in the Senate Commission on Patents that Germany's cartelized economic structure had made it easier for Hitler to come to power . In the Department of Justice, he was also a member of the so-called cartel committee, which dealt with the reconstruction of Europe after the war.

From 1946 Kronstein taught as a full professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC

Later career in the Federal Republic of Germany

From 1951 to 1965 Kronstein taught at the law faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1956/57 he was full professor for commercial law.

In 1967 Kronstein was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

literature

  • Kronstein, Heinrich David , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 208
  • Kronstein, Heinrich David , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 668f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Testimony of a life . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1967 ( online - Dec. 4, 1967 ).
  2. ↑ a b c Homepage of SCHILLING, ZUTT & ANSCHÜTZ Rechtsanwalts AG, accessed on March 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d Stiefel, Ernst C .; Mecklenburg, Frank (1991): German Lawyers in Exile in America (1933–1950) . Tübingen: Mohr.
  4. ↑ Freyer, Tony Allan (2006): Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004 , p. 28. Cambridge [u. a.]: Cambridge Univ. Pr.
  5. ^ Fabian von Schlabrendorff : Encounters in five decades . Wunderlich, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-8052-0323-3 , p. 376 ff .
  6. ^ Kurt Biedenkopf : Heinrich Kronstein, undaunted mentor of the European-American cooperation . In: FAZ from September 12, 1972.
  7. ↑ Stefan Grundmann (ed.), Karl Riesenhuber (ed.): German-speaking civil law teachers of the 20th century in reports ... , Volume 1, p. 187ff. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  8. ↑ cf. Frankfurt dictionary of persons
personal data
SURNAME Kronstein, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kronstein, Heinrich David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, attorney and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1972
Place of death Frankfurt am Main