Oscar Weigert

Oscar Weigert (born August 12, 1886 in Berlin , † January 6, 1968 in Chevy Chase, Maryland ) was a German-American administrative lawyer and labor lawyer .

Life

Weigert studied law at the universities of Berlin , Freiburg , Kiel and Marburg . From 1915 to 1918 he was in the magistrate of the city of Poznan , from 1919 to 1933 he was department head for job placement and unemployment welfare in the Reich Labor Ministry, most recently as ministerial director. The Protestant was retired in March 1933 under the law to restore the civil service because he was accused of his "non-Aryan" origin.

Since 1932 he was married to the psychoanalyst Edith Weigert . In 1933 he emigrated to the USA, in 1935 the couple with their son Wolfgang Oscar (1932–2009) to Ankara , where Weigert played a key role in drafting the Turkish labor law. There they met u. a. regularly the pediatrician Albert Eckstein and Ernst Reuter to scholarly lecture evenings that became their friends. In 1938 the family moved back to the United States , where he became professor of comparative social law and advisor at the United States Department of Labor at the American University in Washington .

literature

• Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
• Ernst C. Stiefel , Frank Mecklenburg: German lawyers in American exile (1933–1950). Mohr Siebeck 1991.
• Ulrike Schulz: The Reich Ministry of Labor 1919–1945. Organization, management staff and political scope for action. In: Alexander Nützenadel (ed.): The Reich Ministry of Labor in National Socialism. Administration - Politics - Crime , Göttingen 2017, pp. 33-102.
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 215 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).

Web links

• Oscar Weigert's curriculum vitae on the website of the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Reich Labor Ministry 1933–1945

Single receipts

1. ^ Rainer Möckelmann: Waiting room Ankara: Ernst Reuter. Exile and return to Berlin , Berlin 2016, p. 88