Georges Brunschvig

Georges Brunschvig ( born February 21, 1908 in Bern, † October 14, 1973 ) was a Swiss lawyer.

Life / Criminal Defense

He attended high school in Bern and studied law at the Universities of Bern and Dijon and made the patent as Berner advocate. In 1935, he married Odette Wyler.

As a trial lawyer, he worked in the Bernese process as well as in the cases of David Frankfurter, Maria Popescu (1946-1955), Max Ulrich (1957) and Mordechai Rachamim (1969).

Offices

  • President of the Jewish Community of Berne 1940-1948
  • President of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities 1946-1973
  • Member of the Federal Commission for war-affected Swiss Abroad
  • Judicial officer in the rank of captain of the Swiss Army

Bibliography

  • The collective libel, 1937.
  • (together with Emil Raas ) destruction of a forgery: the process by which invented " Elders of Zion ", Zurich: Verlag " The design ", 1938.

Secondary literature

  • Urs Lüthi, The Myth of the World Conspiracy: The mad rush of the Swiss Frontists against Jews and Freemasons - the example of the Bernese process to the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion ", 1992 ( Dissertation, University of Bern ). ISBN 978-3-7190-1197-0
  • Israelite weekly paper No. 39, 1993.
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