Karl Eisemann
Karl David Eisemann (born March 21, 1895 in Mannheim ; † August 25, 1982 in Höchenschwand ) was a German lawyer.
Life
Karl Eisemann, son of the businessman Leopold Eisemann, attended the German grammar school in Strasbourg and passed his Abitur there. He then began studying law in Zurich and Strasbourg . He took part in the First World War as a volunteer and returned as a lieutenant who had also fought before Verdun . Then he was a free corps fighter . He completed his law degree in Heidelberg , as he was expelled from Strasbourg, now France, as a German. He then entered the Baden civil service as a magistrate in 1923 .
In 1933 Eisemann was dismissed from civil service by the National Socialists because of his Jewish origins and his socialist convictions. He tried to be recognized as a political refugee in Strasbourg in 1933. However, this was rejected by the French authorities on the grounds that he and his mother in particular had clearly committed themselves to Germanness before 1918. In the early 1940s, Eisemann took on the painful role of liquidator of the Israelite communities. In numerous petitions to the Gestapo (which he had to sign with "Karl Israel Eisemann, Jude, ID card A 00707 Karlsruhe"), Eisemann tried to prevent the deportation of some assistants by pointing out the emerging emergency. The fate of the nursing staff themselves no longer played a role in this fight with the Gestapo. Until the end of the war, Karl David Eisemann was allowed to travel to Switzerland again and again with an appropriate permit in order to make money there - e.g. B. with rich Jewish Swiss. With the help of this money some German Jews were allowed to leave the country officially.
He was warned of his imminent arrest shortly before the end of the war by a former school friend who was an employee of the Gestapo at the time (the latter shot himself after the end of the war). Hiding in a garden shed near Karlsruhe , he was able to evade the Gestapo and the threat of deportation during the last years of the war. The French officers initially thought Karl David Eisemann was a German spy - and he could only clear up this error by proving that he was circumcised as a Jew.
In August 1945 Eisemann was appointed director of the Karlsruhe District Court . In 1960/61 he was Vice-President of the Baden-Württemberg Administrative Court in Mannheim until he retired .
Karl David Eisemann was married to Erika Eisemann, born in December 1925. Robatzek (died 1980). The marriage was childless.
literature
- Detlev Fischer : Legal history tours through Karlsruhe: Residence of the law. (= Series of publications by the Legal History Museum Karlsruhe. Issue 10), Karlsruhe 2005, ISBN 3-922596-65-7 .
- further documents in the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg, Wiesentalstr. 10, there under the signature MSG 2/19295
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eisemann, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eisemann, Karl David (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1982 |
| Place of death | Höchenschwand |