Jacob Segall

Jacob Segall (also: Jakob Segall ; born August 30, 1883 in Chempin , Posen Province ; † May 1959 in Tel Aviv ) was a statistician , social politician and doctor .

Life

Jacob Segall headed the Bureau for Statistics of the Jews in Berlin from 1908 to 1933 and edited the journal for Demography and Statistics of the Jews , headed the Central Welfare Office for German Jews from 1917 to 1926 , practiced as a doctor from 1922 to 1933, went to Palestine in 1933 , initially worked there as a doctor and from 1935 to 1953 again as a statistician.

Major works

• The professional and social conditions of Jews in Germany , Berlin 1912
• The German Jews as soldiers in the war 1914–1918 , Berlin 1921
• The closed and half-open institutions of Jewish welfare in Germany , Berlin 1925 (with Frieda Weinreich)

Literature (selection)

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 177 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
• Siegmund Kaznelson (ed.): Jews in the German cultural area. Berlin 1962
• Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
• Nanette Wolf: Segall, Jacob , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work. Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 546
• Segall, Jacob , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 339
• Segall, Jacob , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economics, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 685