Ludwig Feuchtwanger
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Ludwig Feuchtwanger (28 November 1885, Munich - 14 July 1947, Winchester, England) was a German lawyer, lecturer and author.
Life[]
Feuchtwanger's ancestors originated from the Middle Franconian city of Feuchtwangen which, following a pogrom in 1555, expelled all its resident Jews. Some of the expellees subsequently settled in Fürth where they were called the Feuchtwangers, meaning those from Feuchtwangen.[1] Feuchtwanger's grandfather Elkan moved to Munich in the middle of 19th century.
Ludwig Feuchtwanger was born in 1885 to Orthodox Jewish margarine manufacturer Sigmund Feuchtwanger and his wife Johanna née Bodenheim.[2] He was the second son in a family of nine siblings. He was the younger brother of Lion Feuchtwanger, a German-Jewish novelist and playwright. He and his brother Martin became authors.
Ludwig lived in a home on Grillparzer Strasse, and was a neighbor of Adolf Hitler. After Kristallnacht in 1938, following brief incarceration in Dachau, Ludwig escaped to England.[3] His son is the London-based historian Edgar Feuchtwanger. Two of his sisters settled in Palestine following the rise of the Nazi Party, one was killed in a concentration camp, and one sister settled in New York City.
Published works[]
- Briefwechsel 1918 - 1935 - Published by Duncker & Humblot (September 30, 2007)
References[]
- ^ W. von Sternburg, Lion Feuchtwanger, p. 40f
- ^ R. Jaretzky, Lion Feuchtwanger, p. 9
- ^ "I Was Hitler's Neighbour | History Today".
External links[]
- Guide to the Ludwig Feuchtwanger Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York.
- 1885 births
- 1947 deaths
- People from Munich
- People from the Kingdom of Bavaria
- 20th-century German lawyers
- Writers from Bavaria
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
- German male writers
- Jewish writers
- German writer stubs