Robert Hallgarten

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Robert Samuel Hallgarten (born March 10, 1870 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 17, 1924 in Munich ) was a private scholar, with a double doctorate as a lawyer and Germanist.

Life

Robert Hallgarten was the second son and third of four children of the German-American banker and social reformer Charles Hallgarten . His wife was the women's rights activist Constanze Wolff . The marriage resulted in two children: the historian George W. Hallgarten and the painter Richard Hallgarten , known as "Ricki".

Hallgarten's villa in Herzogpark, Pienzenauerstraße 15, until 2008 the Ukrainian Free University

The Munich branch of the Hallgarten family is best known for its connection to the literary Mann family and, like them, is partly of Jewish origin. Hallgarten's wife Constanze was friends with Katia Mann , Ricki with Erika and Klaus Mann . In addition, the houses of the two families were adjacent. Inge and Walter Jens describe the simultaneous construction of representative villas next to that of the Mann family in the Herzogpark district of Munich . The builders were the families of Bruno Walter , the private scholar Robert Hallgarten and the historian Erich Marcks . They were not only able to guarantee their families "a carefree existence, but also run a house (...) into which to be invited was an honor and a great honor". The theater group, called the “Laienbund deutscher Mimiker”, was founded in 1919 by Ricki Hallgarten and Erika and Klaus Mann. The performances with the neighboring children took place alternately in their parents' villas. At that time, the literary scholar Dirk Heisserer called the Herzogpark “the little Weimar”.

The friendship of the families was also reflected in Thomas Mann's literary work. Robert Hallgarten's father - Charles Hallgarten - is said to have served as a model for a character in the novel Royal Highness . The biography of the father, which Robert Hallgarten wrote in 1915, points to a connection between the Hallgarten and Mann families as well as striking parallels between the figure of the philanthropic multimillionaire Samuel Spoelmann and Charles Hallgarten.

The Hallgarten family was friends with Ludwig Ganghofer , whom the children called "Uncle Ludwig" and who was close friends with Ludwig Thoma . For him, Robert Hallgarten occasionally appeared as a "literary expert" in one of the "many press trials that were brought against Thoma, the mainstay of the satirical paper Simplicissimus by satirical victims."

There were also friendly contacts with Hellmut von Gerlach , who stated in his memoirs that the "descendants of Charles Hallgarten (...) had to find disappointed after his death that almost all of his enormous fortune had been used for charitable purposes."

Robert Hallgarten died in 1924 as a result of an operation. His wife Constanze had to leave the Munich villa after the National Socialists came to power in 1933 and fled to France via Zurich in March of that year.

Fonts (selection)

  • The municipal taxation of undeserved capital appreciation in England . JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachf., Stuttgart 1899
  • The beginnings of Swiss village history . Wolf, Munich 1906 ( online at Open Library )
  • The death penalty. From old and new times of the Enlightenment . Frankfurt 1906
  • Charles L. Hallgarten . Englert & Schlosser, Frankfurt am Main 1915

literature

  • Hans-Otto Schembs , Arno Lustiger (ed.): Charles Hallgarten. Life and work of a Frankfurt social reformer and philanthropist. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-7973-0850-7 .
  • George W. Hallgarten: When the shadows fell. Memories from the beginning of the century to the turn of the millennium. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1969, DNB 456866027 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His son writes about it: “My father was (...) what is called a 'private scholar' in the official German language; namely, he could not make up his mind to accept the invitation of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Munich, which he was very keen on, to do his habilitation there as a philologist. This attitude was due not only to his material independence, but almost more to the fact that the way in which German literature was dismembered, dismantled and divided up in the university's Germanic seminar - and also at many other universities - was somehow his did not agree. My father wasn't a fighter, nor was he vicious enough to be a satirist; if something didn't appeal to him, his style was more like an attitude of humorous resignation ”. From: George W. Hallgarten: When the shadows fell. Memories from the beginning of the century to the turn of the millennium. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 9
  2. ^ Inge and Walter Jens: Mrs. Thomas Mann . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2003, ISBN 3-498-03338-7 , p. 117 f.
  3. ↑ Dirk Heißerer: Das kleine Weimar im Herzogpark , tmfm.de, accessed on November 25, 2013
  4. ^ Konstanze Crüwell: Charles Hallgarten: A kind of confessor of time worries , faz.net, May 21, 2008, accessed on November 23, 2013
  5. ↑ From: George W. Hallgarten: When the shadows fell. Memories from the beginning of the century to the turn of the millennium. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 18
  6. ↑ From: George W. Hallgarten: When the shadows fell. Memories from the beginning of the century to the turn of the millennium. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 22
  7. ^ Constance Hallgarten , fembio.org, accessed October 22, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Hallgarten, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hallgarten, Robert Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Germanist doing private research
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1924
Place of death Munich