Metadata: Alexander Lifschütz Personal Estate
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Bremen State Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Bremen
- Postal address:
- Am Staatsarchiv 1, 28203 Bremen
- Phone number:
- +49 421 361 6221
- Web address:
- https://www.staatsarchiv.bremen.de/
- Reference number:
- 7,176 Lifschütz, Alexander
- Title:
- Alexander Lifschütz Personal Estate
- Title (official language):
- Nachlass Alexander Lifschütz
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lifschütz family
- Date(s):
- 1891/1965
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- approx. 0.2 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises various private and official documents from the life of Alexander Lifschütz (1890-1969), including manuscripts of Lifschütz's pleas, essays and speeches.
- Archival history:
- The material was gathered by the Lifschütz family and transferred to Bremen State Archive in 1990.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Lifschütz was the son of Jews who came to Bremen from Belarus in 1904. Lifschütz was a well known lawyer and worked for many of the city's most prosperous companies. Lifschütz had converted to Protestantism and been active in the Bremer Friedenskirche congregation. Nevertheless, as a born Jew, he lost his admission in 1933 and was forced to emigrate to the Netherlands, where he settled in Amsterdam. After his return to Bremen he became the Senator of Political Liberation in 1947 and was instrumental in the denazification process until its official end in 1949. In 1956, Lifschütz became president of the Bremen state court. He died in 1969.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Lifschütz family
- Lifschütz, Alexander
- System of arrangement:
- The material is loosely arranged by subject and in chronological order within each subject.
- Access, restrictions:
- Permission of the Lifschütz family is needed to consult the collection.
- Finding aids:
- A digital finding aid is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Loeber, Bremen