Language:
German
Pages:
953
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1945
Keywords:
Eisner, Kurt,
;
Landauer, Gustav,
;
Mühsam, Erich,
;
Leviné, Eugen.
;
Brentano, Lujo,
;
Cossmann, Paul Nikolaus,
;
Fechenbach, Felix,
;
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands.
;
Antisemitism.
;
Jews, East European
;
Lawyers.
;
Nazis.
;
Socialism.
;
World War, 1914-1918 Military life.
;
Germany Politics and government 1918-1933.
;
Munich (Germany)
;
Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933.
;
United States Emigration and immigration 1938.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Childhood and education in Munich; assimilated bourgeois Jewish family; father was a lawyer and titular professor; writer Ludwig Thoma assistant of his father; vacations in Marienbad; military service; university studies in Munich with Lujo Brentano; apprenticeship as lawyer; political interest and joining of SPD; contacts with later Bavarian president Kurt Eisner; as soldier in World War I; diplomatic mission in Tirol during last days of World War I; refused to take part in Bavarian revolution of November 1918, but close contacts with Eisner government; exact account of two Bavarian soviet republics in 1919 and their protagonists (Gustav Landauer, Erich Muehsam, Eugen Levine); Bavarian politics and justice 1919-1933; description of Paul Nikolaus Cossmann and his reactionary journal "Sueddeutsche Monatshefte"; advocate of Eisner's secretary Felix Fechenbach in political trial against accusations by Cossmann; expulsion of East European Jews by Bavarian government 1923; Hitler coup attempt 1923; election campaign March 1933; Nazi takeover of power in Bavaria; dismissal as lawyer; decision to emigrate.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
German
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1052666&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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