Herbert S. Schönfeldt
Herbert Siegfried Schönfeldt ( May 26, 1895 in Landeck in West Prussia - June 29, 1956 in Bad Godesberg ) was a Zionist lawyer and association official.
The son of a grain merchant and his wife, born Baruch, received his schooling in Landeck and Berlin, then studied law and became a lawyer and notary . As a volunteer in World War I , he was seriously wounded on the Western Front . In the 1920s and 1930s he worked as the syndic of the Mendelssohn & Co. banking house . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he was re-admitted. He had a law firm in Schöneberger Behrensstrasse. From around 1935 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Aid Association of German Jews. The notary's office was withdrawn from him at the end of 1935, his license to practice law in 1936 or 1938. In 1939 he emigrated to France and the next year fled with his mother across the Pyrenees via Lisbon to New York City , where he worked in a shoe shop.
In 1946 he returned to West Germany with the American War Crimes Investigation Team . He was appointed head of the Claims Conference liaison office in Bonn . He knew one of the three liquidators of IG Farben , the Düsseldorf lawyer Walter Schmidt (1890 - February 6, 1961), from pre-war times. His successor was Ernst Katzenstein .
literature
- Ernst Bahr, Christian Krollmann, Gerd Brausch: Old Prussian biography ; 1989; P. 1286
- Lawyer without a Right: The Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Berlin after 1933 ; Berlin Bar Association; 2007
- Ernst G. Lowenthal: Jews in Prussia
- D. Korn: Who is who in Judaism ?: Lexicon of Jewish prominence
Web links
- http://www.worldcat.org/title/schoenfeldt-herbert-s-61/oclc/657327602
- Benjamin B. Ferencz: Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation . Indiana University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-253-34105-1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4665/1/4665.pdf
- http://www.benferencz.org/stories/a1.html
- Wolfgang Benz: German Jews in the 20th Century: A History in Portraits . CHBeck, 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62292-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/1956_august.pdf
Remarks
- ^ New legal weekly - Volume 14 - page 544
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schönfeldt, Herbert S. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schoenfeldt, Herbert Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Zionist lawyer and association official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landeck in West Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1956 |
| Place of death | bad Godesberg |