Lodewijk Ernst Visser
Lodewijk Ernst Visser (born August 21, 1871 in Amersfoort , † February 17, 1942 in The Hague ) was a Dutch lawyer . He was chairman of the High Council of the Netherlands and was removed from office after the German occupation of the Netherlands on March 1, 1941 due to his Jewish origin.
Life
Lodewijk Visser was born into a Jewish-Dutch family. He received his PhD in Constitutional Law from Utrecht University in 1894. After brief studies in Paris, he began working as a lawyer. In 1897 he became an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After a few years he began to practice as a lawyer again due to increasing anti-Semitism caused by the Dreyfus affair in France, but after a short time took the position of judge at the District Court of Rotterdamwhere he was promoted to vice-president of the same court in 1911. In 1915 he became a member of the Supreme Court as a judge. In 1933 he became Vice President of the Supreme Court and finally in 1939 its President. Immediately after the German occupation of the Netherlands, he was suspended on November 21, 1940 and dismissed on March 1, 1941, like all Jewish officials in the Netherlands. No member of the Supreme Court protested.
His subsequent humanitarian activities for the benefit of the Jewish community and its Jewish fellow citizens, as well as his inquiries to the highest police officer of the occupying power, Higher SS and Police Leader Hanns Albin Rauter , after the fate of the Jewish fellow citizens who had already been deported, ultimately led to threats from the German occupying power to send him and his family to a concentration camp. Immediately after this threat, Lodewijk Visser died of cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 70. His wife Cornelia Johanna Sara Visser-Wertheim (Amsterdam, April 7, 1874 - Westerbork, March 20, 1944) later died at the age of 69 in the Westerbork transit camp . The lawyer Ernst Lodewijk Visser (The Hague, August 14, 1901 - Mauthausen, September 2, 1942) was the son of both.
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| SURNAME | Visser, Lodewijk Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amersfoort |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1942 |
| Place of death | The hague |