Otto Scharlach (lawyer)

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Otto Julius Gideon Scharlach (born February 20, 1876 in Hamburg ; † December 5, 1957 there ) was a German commercial lawyer, shipping lawyer and poet lawyer .

Life

Otto Scharlach was the son of the Hamburg lawyer and colonial entrepreneur Julius Scharlach . After graduating from Wilhelm-Gymnasium , he studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin . In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen in 1894, like his father before . After training in Hamburg he laid in Berlin the state exam and received his doctorate in maritime law Dr. jur. This was followed by an internship in the insurance industry in Paris and a commercial training in London . In 1903 he joined his father's Hamburg law firm with the lawyers Eduard Wilhelm Westphal , Harald Poelchau and Alexander Lutteroth .

During the First World War , Otto Scharlach was Rittmeister in command of a heavy machine gun company .

His larger mandates during the Weimar period included representing the Controll Co. , which dealt with the acceptance of incoming imported goods in the Port of Hamburg, and representing the shipping interests of the German-Russian Transport Corporation . In 1929 he was involved in the transformation of Hamburger Vereinsbank AG into a partnership limited by shares.

In 1939 Otto Scharlach was withdrawn from the bar in Hamburg because of his Jewish origins, despite the privilege of fighting in the front . He emigrated to Switzerland without his family and lived in Ascona until 1947 , where he was banned from working as a lawyer and was busy writing scholarly writings, mostly historical subjects, and had to rely on the help of friends for a living. One of the supporters in the first few years was probably the Hamburg department store king Max Emden , who had lived on the Isole di Brissago in front of Ascona since 1927, until his death in 1940. During the period of emigration, he used his lesser-known first name Gideon as a journalist and used it lightly Italianized pseudonym "Gidone". As Gideon Scharlach, he also corresponded with Thomas Mann from his emigration . The papers of the socially critical journalist Joseph Bornstein (1899–1952), who had emigrated from Germany, are kept in the Leo Baeck Institute , New York, and contain correspondence between Scarlet and his American agent. From them it becomes clear that Scarlet fever was reluctant to return to Hamburg; he would have preferred to stay in Switzerland. His novellas, set in the historical milieu, could not be marketed in the United States after 1945, so that he lacked the current income to stay in Switzerland. In total, Otto Scharlach gave the number of his publications during the time of the Swiss emigration in a self-made list as 44.

Otto Scharlach returned to Hamburg in 1947 as one of the few lawyers who had previously emigrated and, after renewing his license to practice as a lawyer, worked as an individual lawyer in the areas of commercial and shipping law until his death. His “pre-war law firm” later became known as “Stegemann Sieveking Lutteroth” and continues today as the Hamburg office of the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer .

family

Stumbling block for Hans Vincent Scharlach at Fontenay 10

Otto Scharlach had been married to Magdalena Baur since 1915, who came from a middle-class family in Altona . With her he had two sons and a daughter. Four portraits of the latter and her three children by the Hamburg painter Anita Rée for her close friend and neighbor Magdalena Scharlach have come down to us in the art history literature on Anita Rée. While Otto scarlet the Holocaust in the emigration survived and later of natural causes died in his hometown, his family met a terrible fate in Hamburg: Born 1919 Son Hans Vincent , a successful junior tennis players of the 1930s, the Club an der Alster , exposed himself as a “ half-Jew ” in the Hamburg Swing Youth and was killed by the Hamburg National Socialists on April 23, 1945 in the final phase of the war in the Neuengamme concentration camp for “ subversive agitation ” due to a denunciation . A stumbling block in Hamburg-Rotherbaum in front of his last apartment Fontenay 10 reminds of his fate and is directly related to the stumbling block Anita Rées in front of her Hamburg apartment Fontenay 11. The son Joachim , born in 1916, was a well-known and wealthy merchant in Hamburg and temporarily husband of one Daughter of the publisher Axel Springer . He was shot dead at the door of his Hamburg house in Winterhude in 1971 as the victim of an attempted robbery .

Fonts

  • The liability of the members of the Rhedereiverheder, treated according to German maritime law. Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 1897.
  • Crowns in twilight , Broschek, Hamburg 1953 [two stories]

Under a pseudonym

  • Gidone: Le Freulen: An 18th Century Episode. With vignettes by Edmund Welf , Morgarten-Verlag Conzett & Huber, Zurich 1944.
  • Gidone: The Tube , 1945.

literature

  • Werner Schuder : Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . Nekrolog 1936-1970. Walter de Gruyter, 1973, p. 578.
  • Federal Bar Association (Hrsg.): Lawyer without law. The fate of Jewish lawyers in Germany after 1933 . 2007 Berlin p. 201 f., (P. 211)
  • Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen. Volume 1 (1809–1899), Göttingen 2002, No. 822.
  • Heiko Morisse: Jewish Lawyers in Hamburg: Exclusion and Persecution in the Nazi State , Christians Verlag, 2003.
  • Reinhard Pöllath , Ingo Saenger (Eds.): 200 years of business lawyers in Germany . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009 ISBN 978-3-8329-4446-9 .
  • Christiane Fritsche, Britta Stücker, Thomas Prüfer: 175 years of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Germany , Beck-Verlag, Munich 2015, p. 88 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42 , 797.
  2. ↑ Pöllath / Sänger, Wirtschaftsanwälte , p. 86.
  3. ↑ Francesco Welti: The department store king and the beautiful in Ticino: Max Emden and the Brissago Islands , Huber, 2010, p. 217
  4. ↑ process "Gidone" , Neue Zürcher Zeitung (term 1939-1945) in the Swiss Federal Archives
  5. ↑ z. B. SCHARLACH, Gideon on September 4, 1940 to MANN (40/429), see Thomas Mann: The letters 1934 to 1943. Regesta and register.
  6. ^ Bornstein paper in the Leo Baeck Institute
  7. ↑ Christiane Fritsche, Britta Stücker, Thomas Prüfer: 175 years Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Germany , Beck-Verlag, Munich 2015.
  8. ^ Maike Bruhns : Anita Rée: Life and Work of a Hamburg Painter, 1885–1933 , Verlag Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1986
  9. ↑ Per Hinrichs : Commemoration: Stone or not Stone? in: Der Spiegel online from September 30, 2005
  10. ↑ Beate Meyer: "Jüdische Mischlinge": Rassenpolitik and experience of persecution 1933-1945 , Studies on Jewish History Volume 6 of the Foundation Institute for the History of German Jews, 2007, footnote 664 with reference to: Michael Kater : Forbidden Fruit? Jazz in the Third Reich in: American Historical Review No. 1 (February 1989) pp. 11–43 (p. 39)
  11. ↑ The Hotel InterContinental in Hamburg stood there; after the demolition, it is to be replaced by the more exclusive "The Fontenay" by 2016. Therefore, no photo of the stone is available.
  12. ↑ VERBRECHEN-Partly absurd in: Der Spiegel , issue 36/1971.
  13. ↑ GND = 126358370
personal data
SURNAME Scarlet fever, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scharlach, Otto Julius Gideon (full name); Gidone (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg business lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1957
Place of death Hamburg