Ludwig Feuchtwanger

Ludwig Feuchtwanger ( born November 28, 1885 in Munich, † July 14, 1947 in Winchester, England) was a German lawyer, lecturer and author.

Family

The Jewish tribe family was displaced as a result of a 1555 pogrom of the Middle Franconian city wet cheeks. The tribe was divided into four branches: A branch of the family first settled in Fürth and took the last name Feuchtwanger. For this Fürth branch of the goldsmith, soap boiler and merchant Elkan Feuchtwanger (1823-1902) emerged. He founded in Haidhausen a margarine factory, which his son Sigmund Aaron Meir Feuchtwanger (1854-1916) and led business. Sigmund Feuchtwanger and Johanna Bodenheimer (1864-1926) married in 1883. They had nine children and were the parents of Ludwig Feuchtwanger and his brothers Lion Feuchtwanger and Martin Feuchtwanger.

Life

Ludwig Feuchtwanger completed 1904 Abitur at Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich and studied law and political sciences. In 1908 he became the Dr. phil. doctorate at Gustav von Schmoller in Berlin. Then Feuchtwanger worked as a lawyer in Munich.

From 1915 to 1933 Feuchtwanger worked as an editor of the publishing house Duncker & Humblot. During his lectureship Carl Schmitt was first published in the publisher. The nearly twenty years of extensive correspondence between editor and author is in a publication before since 2007. He published Jewish studies and contributions to Jewish studies. After the seizure of power by the Nazis on 30 January 1933 Feuchtwanger lost his proofreading. Nevertheless, he sought Schmitt's support for the idea of ​​a Jewish officer for the remaining Jews in Germany.

Together with Eugen Schmidt Feuchtwanger also worked in the editorial board of the Bavarian Jewish community newspaper: It was published from February 1925 to forced recruitment in December 1937 by the Association of Bavarian Israelite communities. The newspaper tried - as comparable publications - which has prevailed since the mid-19th century Säkularisationstendenzen in Judaism through targeted information policy influence.

In the years 1936-1939 Feuchtwanger was also Director of the Jewish yeshiva in Munich and a member of the Central Office for Adult Education. In 1938 he was arrested by the Nazis and sent to Dachau concentration camp. 1939 succeeded Ludwig Feuchtwanger and his family emigrated to Winchester in England. There they lived in modest circumstances. As Ludwig took a job as a consultant and translator in the British Army in January 1945, he traveled back to France and Germany. " It did not know of" especially with the constant assertion - - From his experience in dealing with the Germans immediately after the end of World War II was shown by his letters to Brother Lion.

Ludwig Feuchtwanger's son is the historian Edgar Feuchtwanger.

Publications

  • The payment of the scientific writer. Report commissioned by the Association for Social Policy. Duncker & Humblot, Munich 1922
  • Festgabe. 50 years Munich 's main synagogue. From 1887 to 1937. Published jointly with Leo Baerwald on behalf of the Jewish community of Munich. Self- Verlag, Munich 1937
  • Collected Essays on Jewish history. Edited by Rolf Riess. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003
  • Carl Schmitt / Ludwig Feuchtwanger. Correspondence from 1918 to 1935. Edited by Rolf Riess. With a foreword by Edgar Feuchtwanger. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007
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