Wilhelm Filderman
Wilhelm "Willy" Filderman (also Fielderman ; born November 14, 1882 in Bucharest ; died May 1963 in Paris ) was a Romanian politician, member of parliament and from 1919 to 1938 chairman of the Union of Romanian Jews .
Life
Wilhelm Filderman was born in 1882 into an assimilated Jewish family in Bucharest . Ion Antonescu , the later Romanian dictator, was one of his school friends . Filderman studied law in Bucharest and after his admission to the bar went to Paris, where he continued his studies at the Sorbonne . In 1910 he received his doctorate in law there.
During the First World War he served in the Romanian army. In 1919 Filderman took part in the Versailles Peace Conference as part of the Romanian delegation .
In Romania between the wars, Filderman was a member of parliament in Greater Romania and also worked for Romania abroad. In 1919 he finally became chairman of the Union of Romanian Jews ( Romanian Uniunea Evreilor Români ) and remained in this position until 1938. From 1936, Filderman cooperated with the Jewish National Party of Romania under the leadership of Mayer Ebner in order to persist against the growing nationalism in Romania can. After the beginning of World War II , Filderman got in touch with the Jewish Agency for Israel . Due to his good relations with Ion Antonescu, who now ruled Romania dictatorially and was allied with the Third Reich , Filderman tried to enable as many Romanian Jews as possible to immigrate to Palestine , their Eretz Israel . However, when Great Britain also declared war on Romania in December 1941, visas were no longer issued.
On May 30, 1943, Filderman was deported to the occupied Transnistria area when he spoke out publicly against a special tax for Jews. However, Filderman survived the time in the camps in Transnistria, where thousands of Jews died. In post-war Romania he was briefly politically active again, but was sidelined when the Romanian Communist Party came to power .
In 1948 he fled Romania and settled in Paris . There he worked as a lawyer for a while and died in 1963.
Individual evidence
- ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 207.
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| SURNAME | Filderman, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Filderman, Willy (nickname); Fielderman, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian politician, member of parliament and chairman of the Union of Romanian Jews (1919–1938) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1963 |
| Place of death | Paris |