Rudolf Heilbrunn

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Rudolf Moritz Heilbrunn (born April 20, 1901 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 4, 1998 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German private scholar , historian , author and editor of Jewish descent.

Life

He was the eldest son of the Frankfurt lawyer and politician Ludwig Heilbrunn and the daughter of a jeweler, Clara Koch. Heilbrunn studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, published his dissertation in 1924 with the title The Legal Status of Works Council Members on the Supervisory Board and received his doctorate in 1928 as Dr. jur. After completing his studies, he joined his grandfather's Robert Koch jewelry company. In 1933 he married the future translator Lore Grages .

After the " Aryanization " of the company by the Nazis in 1938 emigrated moving to Amsterdam , but was into in December 1943 Westerbork transit camp deported .

Heilbrunn survived the concentration camp , first went to Zurich in 1950 and then worked as a private scholar, author and editor in Kaiserslautern.

The painter Max Beckmann portrayed Rudolf M. Heilbrunn in a pencil drawing in Amsterdam in 1946 (Max Beckmann: Portrait of Dr. Rudolf M. Heilbrunn , Amsterdam 1946, pencil drawing, private property).

Works (selection)

  • Ten night watches. Memoirs of life, recorded in the Westerbork transit camp in 1943 , published by the Commission for the History of the Frankfurt Jews, Societätsverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-7973-0730-6
  • Bankhaus J. Dreyfus & Co. , Frankfurt a. M. - Berlin 1868-1939 , o. O. 1962
  • Between Main and Lauter. Historical studies and encounters , celebration of the 90th birthday, Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, District Group Kaiserslautern in the Historical Association of the Palatinate, Kaiserslautern 1991, ISBN 3-927754-07-2
  • The legal position of the works council members on the supervisory board , dissertation, Frankfurt, 1924

literature

  • 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photo of the grave ( flickr (October 12, 2013) )
  2. ^ Short biographies of the lawyers of Jewish origin in the higher regional court district of Frankfurt ( page no longer available , search in web archives: digitized ); (PDF; 271 kB).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rechtsanwaltskammer-ffm.de
  3. ^ Andrea Hopp: Jewish bourgeoisie in Frankfurt am Main in the 19th century , page 212, 1997 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Judith C. Weiss, Walter Barker: Max Beckmann , page 466, Prestel Verlag, 1984 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Heilbrunn, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heilbrunn, Rudolf Moritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German private scholar, historian, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1998
Place of death Kaiserslautern