Henry Jacoby

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Henry Jacoby (before emigration: Heinz Jacoby, pseudonym: Sebastian Franck) (born August 3, 1905 in Berlin ; † June 17, 1986 in Geneva ) was a German social worker, journalist and writer.

Life

Jacoby attended the Schiller-Gymnasium in Berlin-Charlottenburg until 1920, but then had to start an apprenticeship as a printer. Already during the world war he became a pacifist, also by reading the anti-militarist writings published by Georg Friedrich Nicolai . In the early 1920s he helped set up the anti-war museum in Berlin and was director of the associated publishing house until 1927. In 1923 he met the socialist theorist Otto Rühle , who had a strong influence on him and also introduced him to Alfred Adler's individual psychology . The trained social worker was a member of the KPD and wrote two articles for the " Weltbühne " in 1931 . He was imprisoned in 1933 and emigrated via Czechoslovakia in 1936 after his release from prison. Here he was a leader in the specialist group of former Reich German educators that was affiliated with the Association of German Teacher Emigrants .

In 1937 Jacoby went to France and worked there in a children's home. He was interned in 1939 and then emigrated via Great Britain to the USA (1941). From 1945 to 1968 Jacoby was an employee of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Washington, Rome and Geneva. He then worked as a freelance writer for Amnesty International .

Works (selection)

  • On the criticism of political morality. Criticism of political behavior. A contribution to the conception of a new socialist movement , Offenbach 1947.
  • Sociology of freedom. Otto Rühles conception of socialism. A memorial , Ulm 1951.
  • The bureaucratization of the world. A contribution to the history of the problem , Neuwied / Berlin 1969.
  • Contributions to the sociology of the socialist idea , Wiesbaden 1973.
  • Alfred Adler's individual psychology and dialectical character studies , Frankfurt am Main 1974.
  • From the emperor's school to Hitler's prison. Experiences and encounters. History of a youth far left in the Weimar Republic , Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Escaped. 10 years of exile 1936–1946. Prague, Paris, Montauban, New York, Washington. Experiences and encounters , Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-88048-059-1 .

literature

  • Gisela Deising: Henry Jacoby - A life for a better society , in: A. Levy & G. Mackenthun: Gestalten around Alfred Adler - Pioneers of Individual Psychology , Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2156-8 , p. 119-132

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hildegard Feidel-Mertz / Hermann Schnorbach : teachers in emigration. The Association of German Migrant Teachers (1933–39) in the traditional context of the democratic teachers' movement , Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel, 1981, ISBN 3-407-54114-7 , pp. 230-231
personal data
SURNAME Jacoby, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacoby, Heinz; Franck, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1986
Place of death Geneva