Walter Lippmann (lawyer)

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Walter Lippmann (born October 13, 1895 in Leipzig , † April 5, 1986 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and Esperantist .

Life

After the First World War (Iron Cross II) Lippmann received his doctorate in law from the University of Leipzig; In 1924 he finished his traineeship training and opened a law firm in Leipzig. As a veteran of the First World War, Lippmann fell under the exception rules of the National Socialist Attorney Licensing Act , so that after 1933 he retained his admission to the bar for the time being, despite his Jewish origin. After all Jewish lawyers had their licenses withdrawn in 1938, the authorities allowed Walter Lippmann to represent exclusively Jews as a so-called “consultant”. He was arrested four times and spent a month in the Buchenwald concentration camp . In July 1941 he managed to emigrate to the USA. He lived in Philadelphia and New York in the United States . In 1955 he returned to Germany and opened a law firm in Hamburg , the main focus of which was to represent former victims of Nazi persecution in reparation cases . In 1957, the young Claus von Amsberg , who later became the Prince Consort of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, worked for him for a few months . For his decades of commitment to the "reconciliation between Jews and Germans", Dr. Walter Lippmann was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon at the end of 1985 . He worked as a lawyer until his death at the age of ninety.

Walter Lippmann was an active member of the Leipzig Jewish Community in the 1920s. Walter Lippmann spoke Esperanto since 1908 and was already involved in its dissemination in the twenties in the sense of worldwide peaceful understanding. He became director of the grammar section of the Esperanto Academy , gave courses and translated. In 1965 he was awarded the badge of honor of the German Esperanto Association .

Works

  • Dr. Zamenhof's linguistic reports . Leipzig 1921. (New edition 1984)
  • La refleksiva pronomo en Esperanto . Horrem near Cologne 1927.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Bar Association (Ed.): Lawyer without law. The fate of Jewish lawyers in Germany after 1933 . 2007 Berlin p. 62 f.
  2. ^ Federal Bar Association (Ed.): Lawyer without law. The fate of Jewish lawyers in Germany after 1933 . 2007 Berlin p. 62 f.
  3. ↑ Marcus Sikosek: The neutral language. A political history of the Esperanto World Federation . Bydgoszcz 2006, p. 230.
  4. ↑ Dr. Walter Lippmann back in Germany . In: Germana Esperanto-Revuo , September 1955, p. 112.
  5. ↑ Friso Wielenga : Consensus in the polder? Politics and political culture in the Netherlands after 1945 . In: Friso Wielenga and Ilona Taute (eds.): Country report Netherlands. History - economy - society . Bonn 2004, pp. 13–129, here p. 73.
  6. ↑ An example of reconciliation between Jews and Germans . December 28, 1985 in: "Die Welt".
  7. ^ Federal Bar Association (Ed.): Lawyer without law. The fate of Jewish lawyers in Germany after 1933 . 2007 Berlin p. 62 f.
personal data
SURNAME Lippmann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, public prosecutor and Esperantist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1986
Place of death Hamburg