Paul Jonas (lawyer)

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Paul Jonas

Paul Simon Jonas (born September 28, 1850 in Berlin , † February 11, 1916 in Charlottenburg ) was a lawyer and notary and founding member of the theater association Freie Bühne .

Life

Jonas came from a Jewish family, his father was the doctor Michael Jonas, his mother Lina Jonas, nee. Bohm. Paul Jonas was married to Klara Maria Kahn (born June 29, 1863 in Mannheim ; † January 17, 1922 in Berlin), the daughter of the Mannheim industrialist and banker Bernhard Kahn , and his wife Emma, ​​nee. Eberstadt. The Jonas couple had three children. Among them was the daughter Eva Jonas (1888-1983), who was married to Hans Prinzhorn in her first marriage from 1909 to 1912 , to the psychoanalyst Hellmuth Kaiser in her second marriage from 1915 to 1927 and to Friedrich Kessler in her third marriage . The family lived at Taubenstrasse 16 in Berlin.

As the syndic of AEG , whose co-founder Felix Deutsch was married to Klara's sister Elisabeth "Lili" Kahn, Paul Simon Jonas was a member of the board.

He was a friend and lawyer of Gerhart Hauptmann and represented him in court during his divorce. They had known each other since 1896, and Hauptmann often wrote about him in his diaries. Hauptmann often read from his latest works in the Jonas house.

Since 1889 Paul Simon Jonas was a founding member, deputy chairman and legal advisor of the theater association Freie Bühne in Berlin, as well as the syndic of the German theater.

Otto Brahm had staged world premieres of Gerhart Hauptmann's dramas on these stages . Jonas negotiated the contracts between his two friends and many other artists over a period of 20 years. Paul Simon Jonas was a cousin of the playwright Georg Hirschfeld , whose works were also performed on these stages.

Paul Simon Jonas is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

swell

  • Martin Machatzke: Gerhart Hauptmann, diaries 1892-1894 . Propylaea, Berlin 1985
  • Martin Machatzke: Gerhart Hauptmann, diaries 1897-1905 . Propylaea, Berlin 1989
  • Peter Sprengel (ed.): Otto Brahm - Gerhart Hauptmann. Correspondence between 1889 and 1912 . First edition with materials. Tubingen 1985
  • Paul Schlenther (ed.): Otto Brahm - Critical writings . 2 volumes. Berlin 1912 and 1915 (Clara Jonas)
  • Hans Wilderotter (ed.): The extremes meet - Walther Rathenau 1867 - 1922 . An exhibition by the German Historical Museum in collaboration with the Leo Baeck Institute, New York. Argon, Berlin, 1993 (families Eberstadt, Kahn, German, Jonas, Pollack), therein: Ernst Schulin: Walther Rathenau 's Diotima; Lily Deutsch, her family and the group around Gerhart Hauptmann . (Pp. 55–66)
  • Eberhard Hilscher: Gerhart Hauptmann . Union Publishing House, Berlin 1969
  • Jochen Meyer (ed.): Letters to Ernst Hardt - A selection from the years 1898-1947 . Marbacher Schriften, German Literature Archive, Marbach 1975
  • Irmgard Leux-Henschen: Kahn estate. Research on the question of the origin of musicality in the Robert Kahn family . State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Music Department, Berlin
  • Estate of Gerhart Hauptmann, Berlin State Library (letters from Robert Kahn, Paul Jonas, Clara Jonas, Lily Deutsch)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Charlottenburg registry office I No. 191/1916 from February 11, 1916.
  2. ↑ http://www.jinavamsa.com/kaiser.html
personal data
SURNAME Jonas, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jonas, Paul Simon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1916
Place of death Charlottenburg