Hugo Neumann (Lawyer)

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Hugo Neumann (pseudonym: Felix Norbert ; born May 8, 1882 in Berent , West Prussia, † September 4, 1962 in Paris ) was a German lawyer and writer.

Life

Hugo Neumann studied law at the universities in Berlin , Königsberg and Heidelberg , where he became a doctor of law in June 1904 with a thesis on the "public law position of doctors". jur. PhD. He worked as a lawyer and notary in Gdansk until the 1930s . Politically, he was also active there as a liberal member of the Danzig People's Day and as an honorary senator . In 1926 he was part of the delegation of the Free City of Danzig to the League of Nations to negotiate the League of Nations loan .

In 1938 Neumann moved to Paris due to the growing influence of National Socialism on the government of the Free City of Danzig . After the Second World War, he worked from 1945 to 1948 as French legal advisor in the Allied Control Council in Berlin.

In Switzerland he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Internationale Treuhand AG from 1956.

Under the pseudonym Felix Norbert , Neumann published a volume with stories and a novel. He published a novella and his memoirs under his own name.

Works

  • The position of doctors under public law , Heidelberg 1904. (Dissertation; as Hugo Neumann)
  • Fate and share. 3 Erzählungen , Berlin 1948. (with Hedy Zeiler; published under the name Felix Norbert)
  • Final. Sheets from a Danzig diary , Berlin p. a. [1948]. (published under the name Felix Norbert)
  • Barbara , Berlin 1948. (published under the name Hugo Neumann)
  • From the Vistula to the Seine , 1951. (Memories)

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): Politics, Economy, Public Life; Volume 1 of the Institute for Contemporary History: Biographical Handbook of German-speaking Emigration after 1933-1945, 1980, ISBN 9783110970289 , p. 530, online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Schuder: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , 1973, p. 1089.
  2. ↑ Short biography  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at ITAG@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.itag.ch  
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Norbert, Felix (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berent , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1962
Place of death Paris