Hermann Badt

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Hermann Badt (born July 13, 1887 in Breslau ; died July 16, 1946 in Tel Aviv ) was a high-ranking Prussian civil servant, politician and Zionist activist.

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Hermann Badt came from an educated middle-class Jewish family, his father was a high school professor, his sister Bertha Badt-Strauss became a writer. After graduating from high school, Badt studied law in Berlin and Breslau. In 1908 he passed the first state examination in law and received his doctorate in 1909 under Rudolf Leonhard and Otto Fischer . He then worked as a court trainee until 1914 . At the beginning of the First World War he was a soldier for a short time, but was discharged from military service because of an injury. In 1914, Badt passed the second state examination in law and was then employed as a field judge on the Eastern Front until the end of the war .

After the end of the war, Badt entered the Prussian civil service. He was initially a scientific assistant , then a government assessor (as the first of the Jewish faith) and a councilor. From 1920 Badt was then Ministerialrat. At times he was a personal assistant to State Minister Wolfgang Heine . From 1927 Badt was ministerial director. As such, Badt was head of the legal and constitutional department of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. As such, from 1926 to 1932 he was the representative of the Prussian state government at the Reichsrat . After the Prussian strike in 1932, he represented Otto Braun's government before the State Court .

In addition to his professional activity, Badt was a member of the Prussian state parliament for the SPD from 1922 to 1926 . In addition, he was already heavily involved in the Zionist movement in Germany before the First World War . In 1929 he became a member of the great council of the Prussian State Association of Jewish Congregations and the Pro Palestine Committee. Immediately after the beginning of National Socialist rule, Badt emigrated to Palestine in 1933 . There he developed plans to improve the emigration of Jews from the German sphere of influence through the transfer of goods. In May to June 1933 he traveled to Italy , Switzerland and the Netherlands for the Palestine Development organization . In Palestine itself he was involved in the establishment of a settlement community on the east bank of the Sea of ​​Galilee .

Works

  • The legal nature of the principles governing the substantive force of civil judgments . Fleischmann, Breslau 1909 (Breslau, Jur.Diss. Of July 30, 1909)

literature

  • Julius H. Schoeps : Badt, Hermann. In: the same (ed.): New Lexicon of Judaism. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1992, ISBN 3-570-09877-X , p. 58.
  • Yehîʿēl Ilsar: In the dispute for the Weimar Republic. Stations in the life of Hermann Badt . Transit, Berlin 1992 ISBN 3-88747-075-3
  • Hartwig Wiedebach: Hermann Cohen's examination of Zionism. Letters from Hermann Cohen and Hermann Badt to Martin Buber . In: Jewish studies quarterly (JSQ) Vol. 6. No. 4. Mohr, Tübingen 1999, pp. 373–388
  • Yehîʿēl Ilsar: Hermann Badt. From the representation of Prussia in the Reichsrat to the settlement project on the Sea of ​​Galilee. In: Tel Aviver yearbook for German history. Wallstein, Göttingen 1991 Vol. 20, pp. 339-362
  • Badt, Hermann , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 31
  • Badt, Hermann , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 17

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SURNAME Badt, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian civil servant and politician, as well as a Zionist activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1946
Place of death Tel Aviv