Hendrik van Dam
Hendrik George van Dam (born November 8, 1906 in Berlin ; died March 28, 1973 in Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer. From 1950 to 1973 he was general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany . He published under the name HG van Dam.
Life
His parents were Jacques A. van Dam and Meta Cohen. Van Dam studied law in Heidelberg , Munich , Berlin and Basel . In 1934 he received his doctorate in law.
Van Dam emigrated to the era of National Socialism in Switzerland . After fleeing to England via the Netherlands , he was interned there.
Back in Germany in 1945, Hendrik van Dam, who resolutely opposed the widespread thesis that no Jews should settle in Germany after the persecution of the Nazi era, set up the judiciary in Oldenburg . From 1946 to 1950 he held a leading position for the Jewish Relief Unit in Northern Germany, and from 1950 until his death, he was General Secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
Book publications
- HG van Dam, Ralph Giordano (ed.): Concentration camp crimes before German courts , Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt 1962
- HG van Dam, Ralph Giordano (ed.): Einsatzkommando Tilsit - The Ulm Trial , Concentration Camp Crimes Before German Courts, Volume 2, Frankfurt am Main: European Publishing House 1966
Honors
- 1973: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
Web links
- Literature by and about Hendrik van Dam in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hendrik George van Dam in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.
Chair: Heinz Galinski (1954–1963) | Herbert Lewin (1963-1969) | Werner Nachmann (1969–1988) | Heinz Galinski (1988–1990)
President: Heinz Galinski (1990–1992) | Ignatz Bubis (1992–1999) | Paul Spiegel (2000-2006) | Charlotte Knobloch (2006–2010) | Dieter Graumann (2010–2014) | Josef Schuster (since 2014)
General Secretaries: Hendrik van Dam (1950–1973) | Alexander Ginsburg (1973–1988) | Micha Guttmann (1988–1992) | Stephan J. Kramer (2004-2014)
Managing Director: Daniel Botmann (since 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dam, Hendrik van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dam, Hendrik George van (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, General Secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1973 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |