Sally Grosshut

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Sally Grosshut , also Großhut, or Friedrich or Fred Sally Grosshut, FS Grosshut, actually Salomon Mantel (born July 16, 1906 in Wiesbaden ; † October 7, 1969 in North Bergen , New Jersey ) was a German lawyer and writer .

Birthplace of Sally Grosshut, Wiesbaden, Wagemannstrasse 27

Life

He was born as the son of the old Jewish trader Ludwig Mantel, called Großhut, and his wife Rude, nee. Stern was born and had four sisters. At the turn of the 20th century, the family moved from Krakow, then Austria, to Wiesbaden. The father had opened a small shop at Wagemannstrasse 27 in Wiesbaden.

Sally Grosshut excelled at school in the subject of sport and played football , handball and batball , also in Wiesbaden clubs, whereas his other school achievements were rather average. He also showed an inclination towards the subjects German, history and languages.

After graduating from high school at the humanistic grammar school in 1925 , he began studying law at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1926, Grosshut founded the Jewish sports club Hakoah Wiesbaden , also in order to combat the public reservations about Judaism through sporting achievements, although the establishment of a Jewish sports club was rejected by many assimilated Jews. Grosshut led the handball section of his sports club to the top of the district league until 1929 .

In 1932 Grosshut received his doctorate from Professors Friedrich Giese and Hermann Heller on the subject of police emergency law, state emergency services and state emergency. The dissertation caused a sensation in legal circles - also because of its explosive topic; Professor Carl Schmitt forwarded a copy to the NSDAP . At the same time, Grosshut's application for naturalization was rejected, which amounted to a professional ban in the state legal system. Two weeks earlier, he was the first Jew to be awarded the golden handball badge of honor by the German Sports Authority (DSB).

Honor roll at the house Wagemannstrasse 27

Grosshut joined Leo Harry's legal practice in Wiesbaden as a lawyer , but it had to close in April 1933. On April 22nd, the SA murdered the dealer Salomon Rosenstrauch in his shop at Wilhelmstrasse 20, to whose daughter Sina Grosshut was engaged. In 1933 Sally Grosshut and Sina Rosenstrauch emigrated to Palestine and lived in Haifa , where Grosshut had found a job in surveying . There he received the news that his father had died as a result of abuse.

Between 1934 and 1938 Grosshut wrote one of the few dramas that exile literature has to offer . The play describes Hitler's seizure of power in Germany and is entitled It happened in Ohio . In addition, he wrote newspaper articles and poems, as well as short stories.

In 1936, Grosshut and Sina Rosenstrauch married, who was considered one of the first feminists in Palestine and who had opened a German antiquarian bookshop in Haifa with her husband . Grosshut refused to learn Hebrew and even added the first name Friedrich to his name , also to protest against the conversion of German names into Hebrew.

Around 1942, under the patronage of Arnold Zweig, Wolfgang Yourgrau founded the magazine Orient , which succeeded Carl von Ossietzky's Weltbühne and regularly contributed to the Grosshut as editor . A year later, was printing the publisher by Zionist terrorists blew up , the publications in German language would prevent.

By the end of the Second World War, Grosshut wrote eight novels and short stories , including a serial in the Jewish weekly newspaper , which was published in Buenos Aires . Between 1946 and 1949 Grosshut and other authors published the hectographed newspaper Tribüne , which was addressed in German to German prisoners of war who were being held by the English administration in Palestine. In 1945 Grosshut's novel Standarte BG was published , which deals with the last days of the Third Reich .

In April 1948 Gros hat and his wife left the immediately previously proclaimed State of Israel and flew to Sweden , from where they in the United States of America emigrated where Gros Shut as piece workers broke through in a textile company. In 1957, the German state awarded the Grosshut family financial compensation in accordance with the Federal Compensation Act , whereupon the family opened a small business. Grosshut died of a heart attack in 1969 .

Stumbling blocks in front of the birth house remind of family members

Memberships

Grosshut was a member of the London PEN Club .

Honors

At the author's birthplace at Wagemannstrasse 27, a memorial plaque and honor plaque was put up in 1985 at the request of the Mitte local council . In 1983 an exhibition in Wiesbaden's town hall commemorated the city's son and his fate. Both honors go back to initiatives of the Wiesbaden historian Lothar Bembenek.

See also

List of stumbling blocks in Wiesbaden-Mitte

Work (selection)

Grosshut published a large number of literary and legal works in his life. The following information is based on the research of Lothar Bembenek, who had been in contact with the author's widow, Sina Grosshut, since the early 1980s and who created an extensive collection of materials which a. Contains unpublished works by Grosshut.

Literary publications

  • 1944 The Blockhaus , novella in 'Jüdische Wochenschau', Buenos Aires
  • 1945 Lasalle visits Wagner , a novel in 'Jüdische Wochenschau', Buenos Aires
  • 1945 Napoleon a Potsdam , novella (translated into French) in 'La Marseillaise', Cairo
  • 1947 Standarte BG , Roman, 2 vol., Tribüne-Verlag Fanara (Egypt) 1947
  • 1984 Referee Rissing directs a game , narrative, edited by Lothar Bembenek , Verlag H.-G. Seyfried, Wiesbaden, ISBN 3-922604-05-6

Legal publications

  • 1932/33 Staatsnot und Staatsnotrecht, Württembergische Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrechtspflege
  • 1962 State emergency, law and violence, Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg

Publishing, editorial work

(Number of articles in brackets)

  • 1942/1943 Wochenschrift Orient , Haifa; in reprint: Gerstenberg-Verlag, Hildesheim 1981, (15)
  • 1946–1949 Tribune , Fanara Publishing House, Egypt; various magazines of the German prisoner of war camp 307 u. a. (22)
  • 1944–1964 Jewish newsreel , Buenos Aires (38)
  • 1949–1960 Argentinisches Tageblatt , Buenos Aires (21)
  • 1949–1966 General weekly newspaper for Jews in Germany , Düsseldorf (26)
  • 1949/1950 Aftontidningen , Stockholm (7)
  • 1949/1950 Expressen , Stockholm (4)
  • without year Books Abroad , Norman / USA, Literary Quarterly (reviews of 34 authors)
  • 1960–1962 Deutsche Rundschau , Baden-Baden (6)

Holdings

  • Else Lasker-Schüler : Letters 1941–1945 . - Supplements. Critical edition. Works and Letters Vol. 11. Ed. By Karl Jürgen Skrodzki and Andreas B. Kilcher. 2010. ISBN 9783633542420
  • Valerie Popp : But everything was different here ... , pictures of America in German-language exile literature after 1939 in the USA. Epistemata, Series Literary Studies Vol. 636. 2008. ISBN 9783826038310

Unpublished manuscripts

(about 93 works, possibly incomplete), localities:

  • Center for Jewish History, University of New Hampshire / UfiA, Leo Baeck Institute, New York
  • Property of the editor Lothar Bembenek

About Sally Grosshut

  • Helmut F. Pfanner: Friedrich Sally Grosshut. The tragedy of a German-Jewish poet's fate in the reception of contemporary German literature abroad (0. Papenfuß, J. Söring, eds.), Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, Mainz 1976.
  • Helmut F. Pfanner: The depiction of the Hitler dictatorship in an unpublished drama by Friedrich Sally Grosshut - in congress reports on international German studies. German exile drama and exile theater (W. Eife et al., Ed.), Bern, Frankfurt 1977.
  • Helmut F. Pfanner: Friedrich Sally Grosshut estate report , literary studies yearbook (H. Kunisch, ed.), Berlin 17/1976
  • W. Berendsohn, Die Humanistische Front , Worms 1976
  • W. Sternfeld, E. Tiedemann: Deutsche Exilliteratur 1933–1945 , Heidelberg 1970
  • J. Spalek: Guide to the Archival Material of the German-speaking Emigration to the United States after 1933 , University of Virginia 1978
  • Lothar Bembenek: Sally Grosshut. Portrait of a Jewish exiled writer in Wiesbadener Leben , edition 5/1983
  • Lothar Bembenek: Sally Grosshut. The fairy tale of the Great Knurr in Wiesbaden International , edition 3/1983
  • Rolf Faber and Karin Rönsch: Wiesbaden's Jewish lawyers: life and fate of 65 Jewish lawyers, notaries, judges, trainee lawyers, civil servants and employees , writings of the Wiesbaden City Archives, Vol. 11, 2011, ISBN 3-980870-23-5
  • Heinz-Jürgen Hauzel: handball ace and writer. Wiesbadener Kurier (Wiesbaden Department), August 11, 2020 ( WKplus )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b website Kalliope
  2. ↑ a b Referee Rissing directs a game, story, 1984, Wiesbaden
personal data
SURNAME Big hat, Sally
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Big hat, Sally Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH 7th October 1969
Place of death North Bergen , New Jersey