Born:

October 17, 1901, Söhrau, Oberschlesien

Died:

March 08, 1974, Hamburg

Apprenticeship in a bank; studied law and economics in Rostock, Freiburg and Paris, received doctorates in both subjects; held various honorary offices in the Jewish community; in 1933 he became full-time secretary of the Jewish community

Mentioned in

• Käthe Starke, Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt. Read by Laura de Weck, excerpt from the audio book “...in schwarzer Nacht und lautloser Stille muss ich meinen Weg allein suchen...”, Hamburg 2011.
• Martha Glass: Theresienstadt Diaries 1943-1945
• Rothenbaumchaussee 38: The Treatment of Jewish Property in the Postwar Period (Hendrik Althoff)
• The Admission of Baptized Students to the Talmud Torah School in Hamburg Beginning in Late 1938 (Christiane Pritzlaff)
• The Franz Rosenzweig Memorial Foundation (Ina Lorenz)
• The Number of Jews in Hamburg on April 30, 1945 (Jörg Berkemann)