Max Naumann

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Max Naumann (born January 12, 1875 in Berlin ; † May 15, 1939 there ) was a German lawyer , politician and publicist . He was the founder and chairman of the Association of National German Jews. The members were also referred to as "Naumann Jews". From 1922 to 1934 Naumann published the journal Der nationaldeutsche Jude .

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Naumann began to study law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . In 1893 he became a member of the liberal Brandenburgia Berlin, which joined the Burschenbunds-Convent in 1919 . At the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . He was a reserve officer in the Bavarian Army and most recently took part in the First World War as captain of the Bavarian Landwehr . He was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes and the Order of Military Merit (Bavaria) IV class. After the war ended, Naumann finally moved to Berlin. In the Weimar Republic he was a member of the German People's Party .

Naumann and his Association of national German Jews (VnJ), founded in 1921, saw the emphasis and display of a special Jewish identity as the trigger for racism and hostility to Jews . Naumann and the VnJ were thus in sharp opposition to Zionism and most of the Jewish associations and made a strict distinction between German Jews and foreign Jews. He was particularly angry with the Eastern Orthodox Jews who had poured into the empire . Naumann and the members of the VnJ joined the idea of ​​a “German God” and celebrated Christian holidays. At first, Naumann even saw Adolf Hitler as a positive political force. He dismissed his anti-Semitism as unimportant. Despite (or because of) the expressions of loyalty to National Socialism and despite its German national orientation, Naumann's Association of National German Jews was dissolved on November 18, 1935, earlier than other Jewish organizations. Max Naumann was arrested by the Secret State Police on the same day . He was released from Gestapo custody a month later after attempting suicide . His grave is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

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Max Naumann's gravestone in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf
  • From the national German Jew. Berlin 1920.
  • All-German or half-German. Four essays. Berlin 1921.
  • From the German future. Two essays. Berlin 1924.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Hambrock: The establishment of outsiders: the Association of national German Jews 1921-1935 (2003)
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The inheritance contract in its relationship to emergency heir rights .
personal data
SURNAME Naumann, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, politician and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1939
Place of death Berlin