Ludwig Bendix

This article describes the financial advisor. For the cathedral capitular and members of the state parliament see Ludwig Bendix (theologian)

Ludwig Bendix (born June 28, 1877 in Dorstfeld , now Dortmund ; died January 3, 1954 in Oakland ) was a German lawyer , financial advisor and economist.

Life

Bendix was born in Dorstfeld near Dortmund. He completed a law degree and practiced as a lawyer from 1907 , and from 1923 as a notary in Berlin . Bendix was a co-founder of the magazine Die Justiz . As early as 1933, at the beginning of the National Socialist era , he was struck off the list of attorneys as a Jew and thus also lost his office as a notary. A “ protective custody ” lasting from 1935 to 1937 took him via the Lichtenburg concentration camp to the Dachau concentration camp . He described life in the camp in previously unpublished memoirs . On the condition that he had to leave Germany, Bendix was released from the Dachau concentration camp in 1937 and moved to Palestine . After ten years there, he emigrated to the USA in 1947 , where he died in 1954.

His son Reinhard Bendix made a name for himself as a sociologist in the USA .

Fonts (selection)

• On the psychology of the professional judge's judgment and other writings. Luchterhand, Neuwied 1968.
• America in the Great Depression. The International Press, New York 1932.
• Certain and uncertain law. W. Moeser, Leipzig 1930.
• The American investment market. Carl Heymann, Berlin 1929.
• The irrational forces of the judiciary. E. Laub, Berlin 1928.

in Hebrew

• Hājítí be-Dachau [I was in Dachau: From a diary from concentration camps in Germany], Massada Verlag, Tel Aviv.

literature

• Diethard Aschoff: Unpublished Westphalian-Jewish Memoirs. In: Westfälische Forschungen, Vol. 38 (1988), pp. 257-265.
• Reinhard Bendix : From Berlin to Berkeley. German-Jewish identities . 1st edition. Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-04710-8 (English: From Berlin to Berkeley .).
• Bendix, Ludwig , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 25
• Bendix, Ludwig , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 77

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Bendix in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Ludwig Bendix  in the German Digital Library
• Photos and biographical information on Ludwig Bendix on juedischeliteraturwestfalen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data from: Kersten Thieler: "[...] unworthy of having a German academic degree." The withdrawal of doctoral degrees from the Georg-August University in Göttingen in the "Third Reich" . Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen, Göttingen 2004, p. 58.