Max Stein (lawyer)

Max Stein (born December 24, 1901 in Nordheim vor der Rhön ; died April 19, 1964 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli lawyer and government official. He emigrated to Israel in 1933 after the National Socialists had previously deprived him of his legal license as a Jew .

Life

Max Stein was the third son of the entrepreneur Adolf Stein (1864–1932) and his wife Henriette (1861–1941). He was one of seven siblings, four of whom were born in Nordheim. The family moved to Schweinfurt in 1902, where he grew up. He studied law in Berlin and did his doctorate in Würzburg with the thesis The new order in the state church law relationships of the Israelite religious communities in Bavaria . He worked as a syndic at Basaltwerke Leimbach & Co. , which was managed by his father until 1932 and then by his brothers Jakob and Fritz. In 1933 he and his two brothers were taken into protective custody by the Nazis for a few days for no reason .

In 1928 he was admitted to the bar in Schweinfurt and became a junior partner in a law firm there. On August 17, 1933, with the express consent of the Bamberg Bar Association , his license to practice as a lawyer was withdrawn against the vote of the courts involved. Since he had always identified himself with the values of Judaism and committed himself to the goals of Zionism , he emigrated to Israel at the end of 1933 together with his sister Klara, who was born in 1908. Other siblings and his mother also managed to escape, his brother Fritz survived imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , but died of the consequences of imprisonment at the age of 56. In 1943 he married Dora Salomon from Grünberg and they had two children.

After further training in London, he worked as a freelance auditor in Jerusalem from 1938 to 1940. From 1940 to 1948 he worked for the British Mandate Administration in their tax department . After the establishment of the State of Israel he was admitted to the bar and worked from 1948 to 1954 as a senior appraiser in the Ministry of Finance and then until 1964 as a deputy public prosecutor in the Ministry of Justice.

In addition, as a lecturer in income tax, he taught future tax officials and was legal advisor to the Jewish Claims Conference in Frankfurt am Main from 1958 to 1962 . There he played a leading role in the enforcement of compensation claims by forced laborers against German industrial companies. He wrote the report Report on the Employment of Slave Work by the Siemens Concern during World War II , which is now in the estate of Ernst Katzenstein . The originally unpublished report is now used in books on forced labor during National Socialism.

He died on April 19, 1964 in Jerusalem.

literature

Stein, Max , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 725

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Alfred Saam: The basalt works Oberriedenberg with its stone quarries Steinküppel, Gebirgsstein and Kellerstein , 1992, p. 7 ( book in the University and State Library of Fulda )
↑ DNB 571590810
^ Caption to a photo in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
^ ^A ^b Reinhard Weber: The fate of the Jewish lawyers in Bavaria after 1933 . ed. from the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice, the Bamberg, Munich and Nuremberg Bar Associations and the Zweibrücken Bar Association. R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-58060-0 , pp. 170/171.
↑ Reinhard Weber: The fate of the Jewish lawyers in Bavaria after 1933 . ed. from the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice, the Bamberg, Munich and Nuremberg Bar Associations and the Zweibrücken Bar Association. R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-58060-0 , p. 218.
^ S. Jonathan Wiesen: West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past: 1945 - 1955 , Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2004, ISBN 9780807855430 , p. 202
^ Benjamin B. Ferencz : Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation , Indiana University Press, 2002, ISBN 9780253215307 , p. 229; Alon Confino, Peter Fritzsche : The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture , University of Illinois Press, 2002, ISBN 9780252027178 , p. 211.

personal data
SURNAME	Stone, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Israeli lawyer and government official
DATE OF BIRTH	December 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nordheim before the Rhön
DATE OF DEATH	April 19, 1964
Place of death	Jerusalem

[Alfred_Saam-1] Alfred Saam: The basalt works Oberriedenberg with its stone quarries Steinküppel, Gebirgsstein and Kellerstein , 1992, p. 7 ( book in the University and State Library of Fulda )

[2] DNB 571590810

[3] Caption to a photo in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

[Reinhard_Weber-4] A ^b Reinhard Weber: The fate of the Jewish lawyers in Bavaria after 1933 . ed. from the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice, the Bamberg, Munich and Nuremberg Bar Associations and the Zweibrücken Bar Association. R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-58060-0 , pp. 170/171.

[5] Reinhard Weber: The fate of the Jewish lawyers in Bavaria after 1933 . ed. from the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice, the Bamberg, Munich and Nuremberg Bar Associations and the Zweibrücken Bar Association. R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-58060-0 , p. 218.

[6] S. Jonathan Wiesen: West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past: 1945 - 1955 , Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2004, ISBN 9780807855430 , p. 202

[7] Benjamin B. Ferencz : Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation , Indiana University Press, 2002, ISBN 9780253215307 , p. 229; Alon Confino, Peter Fritzsche : The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture , University of Illinois Press, 2002, ISBN 9780252027178 , p. 211.