Nathan Stein (economist)

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Nathan Stein (born October 1, 1881 in Worms ; died June 23, 1966 in New York City ) was a German-American lawyer.

Life

Nathan Stein was a son of Caroline Mainzer and the long-time rabbi in Worms Alexander Stein , he had three sisters. Nathan Stein married Recha Strauss in 1906 and they had four children, all of whom had to emigrate.

From 1899 Stein studied law in Heidelberg, Berlin and Gießen, he received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1903 and completed his legal clerkship in Mainz. From 1906 he practiced as a lawyer in Karlsruhe , where he became a partner in the Strauss & Co. bank. Stein was a soldier in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. From 1911 to 1914 and from 1920 Stein was a lecturer at the TH Karlsruhe , from 1925 he held an honorary professorship for finance, finance and balance sheets.

Stein was a member of the IHK Karlsruhe and chairman of its legal and tax committee, chairman of the examination committee for auditors in Baden and the Palatinate, deputy commercial judge and from 1925 to 1933 a member of the tax court . With the transfer of power to the National Socialists in Germany in 1933, he lost these functions for racist reasons.

Stein worked on a voluntary basis in the self-organization of the Jews in the German Reich and was senior councilor for the Israelites of Baden from 1922 to 1937, when they were founded in 1933 he was elected to the advisory board of the Reich Representation of German Jews .

Stein had to emigrate to Switzerland in 1937 and came to the USA in 1939. There he was involved in the American Federation of Jews from Central Europe , whose honorary president he became in 1952, and worked on the German reparation policy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Memoirs of the Oberrat der Israeliten Baden 1922–37 , in: Yearbook, Leo Baeck Institute , 1956

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 725
  • Stein, Nathan , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 351
  • Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: A Study of Institutional and Personal History . Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , p. 843
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Nathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1966
Place of death New York City