Simon Abramowitz

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Alfred Simon Abramowitz (born March 23, 1887 in Ruß , Memelland , † July 12, 1944 in London ) was a German lawyer and civil servant.

Life and activity

Abramowitz studied law at the University of Königsberg . From 1921 he was used as an assessor at the district courts of Ziegenhals, Rybik, Brieg, Oels and the district courts of Beuthen, Neisse and Brieg. 1922 found a job at a bank in Gdansk.

In 1923 Abramowitz joined the police headquarters in Berlin as a legal advisor , where he was appointed deputy head of Department I in 1927 and promoted to the rank of government councilor in 1926 or 1927. In 1928 or 1929 he was promoted to government director and head of department.

In 1929 or 1930 Abramowitz was transferred to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior as an unskilled worker with the rank of Ministerial Councilor. At the same time he was appointed State Commissioner at the Deutsche Sparkassen- und Girozentrale (State Commissioner for the German Savings Banks and Giro Association). According to Alfred Fischer, the banking crisis of 1930, which broke out as a result of the Great Depression, would have erupted “undoubtedly a few weeks earlier, and then in public banking” without Abramowitz's effective restructuring work, and without his work there would never have been such a comparatively quick recovery of the banking system as it happened then.

In the wake of the Prussian strike of July 20, 1932, Abramowitz was put into temporary retirement on December 1, 1932.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Abramowitz, who was now permanently removed from civil service due to his Jewish descent, emigrated to Great Britain via Switzerland in 1934. There he worked in a London law firm and was active in the British exiled group of the Social Democratic Party.

In 1939 he was interned as an enemy alien .

family

Abramowitz was married to Reny, widowed Treptow.

Fonts

  • Essential tasks of the savings bank supervision. In: Sparkasse 51 (1931), No. 11, pp. 217-220.

literature

  • Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: Actra Borussica. New episode. The protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38, 2004, vol. 2, p. 511.
  • Albert Fischer: The Landesbank of the Rhine Province. Rise and Fall Between Business and Politics, 1997.
  • Werner Röder / Herbert A. Strauss : Politics, Economy, Public Life , 1980, p. 3.
  • Harry Herbert Tobies: Königsberg, Munich, Jerusalem: Jewish people and Jewish life over the centuries 2006, p. 338.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of death according to Socialist Communications. News for German Socialists in England , 1944, p. 179.
  2. ↑ At the time of his promotion, different information is available: The Federal Archives and Röder / Strauss each give 1927 as the year of promotion to the government council; Röder / Strauss give 1929 as the year of promotion to government director, while the Federal Archives pass over this promotion; the Federal Archives give 1929 as the year of promotion to Ministerialrat, while Röder / Strauss mention this promotion without specifying the year. In the short biography in the minutes of the Prussian State Ministry, 1926 is named as the year of promotion to the government council, 1928 as the year of promotion to government director and 1930 as the year of promotion to ministerial council.
  3. ^ Alfred Fischer: Die Landesbank der Rheinprovinz , 1997, p. 445.
  4. ↑ Simon Abramowitz in the database Britain, Enemy Aliens and Internees
personal data
SURNAME Abramowitz, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abramowitz, Alfred Simon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Soot, Memelland
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1944
Place of death London