Richard Frankfurter

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Richard Otto Frankfurter (also Richard O. Frankfurter) (born December 12, 1873 in Bielitz , † February 2, 1953 in Montevideo ) was a German politician (DDP), lawyer and writer.

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Frankfurter was born into a Jewish family in 1873. His mother was the writer and journalist Ulla Wolff-Frank , who published most of her works under the name Ulrich Frank. His step brother was the politician Arthur Wolff . In his youth he attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Berlin . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin . After his doctorate as Dr. jur. he settled in Berlin in 1900.

During the First World War , from 1915 to 1918 Frankfurter headed the department for the supply of industry with foreign workers at the Berlin headquarters. In 1917 and 1918, he also took on tasks in the Foreign Office related to the topics of the foreign press and cultural propaganda . During the war, Frankfurter began to work in the press as a political and columnist journalist as well as a novelist.

After the war, Frankfurter lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . From 1921 he expanded his legal field of work by now also starting to perform notarial duties. He was now known to a wider public as a lawyer for large companies in the theater and film industry, such as Tobis . In this context, Frankfurter was one of the first lawyers in Germany to deal with the legal aspects of the new medium after the emergence of the sound film .

Frankfurter found a political forum in the post-war period in the left-liberal German Democratic Party (DDP), of which he was one of the founders. From 1920 to 1929 he was a member of the party executive and he headed the organizing committee of his party. In February 1928, Frankfurter entered the third Reichstag of the Weimar Republic , elected in December 1924, as a replacement for his deceased party colleague Fritz Raschig , of which he was a member until May of the same year. Frankfurter personally rejected the merger of the DDP with the German State Party (DStP), but was ultimately willing to accept it for the sake of party peace.

After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", Frankfurter, who was persecuted because of his Jewish descent, first emigrated via Paris to Switzerland, where he lived as a lawyer in Zurich and in 1939 to Uruguay , where he died in 1953.

Fonts (selection)

  • When is a thing obtained by means of a criminal act? Dissertation. Dessau 1899.
  • From crowned heads . Novellas. Leipzig 1906.
  • The salvation on high . Novel. Berlin 1908.
  • If the world were different. Grotesques. Oesterfeld & Co, Berlin 1909.
  • The story of the Giustiniani . Oesterheld & Co., Berlin 1911.
  • Submarine War and International Law . Berlin 1916.
  • Without gods . Grethlein & Co, Leipzig 1916.
  • David strikes the harp . Leipzig 1922.

literature

  • J. Hellmut Freund: In front of the lemon tree. Autobiographical digressions of a returnee. Berlin - Montevideo - Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt a. M. 2005, p. 339f.
  • Simone Ladwig-Winters: lawyer without rights. The fate of Jewish lawyers in Berlin after 1933 , 2nd edition Berlin 2007, p. 154.
  • Nessun Saprà: Lexicon of German Science Fiction & Fantasy 1870-1918. Utopica, Oberhaid 2005, ISBN 3-938083-01-8 , p. 91 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegmund Kaznelson , Richard Willstätter: Jews in the German cultural area. A compilation , 1962, p. 669.
  2. ^ Lothar Albertin : Left Liberalism in the Weimar Republic, the Leading Committees of the German Democratic Party , 1980, p. 5.
  3. ^ Peter Pulzer : Jews and the German State. The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933 , 2003, p. 289.
  4. ↑ Erika Wottrich: German Universal. Transatlantic rental and production strategies . 2001, p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Frankfurter, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frankfurter, Richard Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielitz
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1953
Place of death Montevideo