Ernst Herzfeld : Eine Autobiographie.

This version was edited by Alfred Hirschberg and E.G. Lowenthal for the purpose of publication.Family background and childhood in Posen; primary and secondary education; university studies in Freiburg, Muenchen and Berlin; first experiences as a lawyer; settling in Essen in 1903 and founding of local CV chapter; specializing in economic law; military service in +World War I; relationship between CV and Zionism in Weimar period; activities in Essen Jewish community and in Prussian Federation of Jewish Communities; persecution of Jewish lawyers after 1933; last phase of CV before its dissolution in 1938; pogrom (November 1938); emigration to Palestine.Ernst Herzfeld was born in Graetz (Posen) in 1875 into an upper-middle-class Jewish family. He was a well-known industrial lawyer in Essen and the co-founder and chairman of the Rhineland branch of the CV. After the death of his brother-in-law Julius Brodnitz, Herzfeld became his successor as the chairman of the CV, over which he presided until its dissolution in 1938. Herzfeld emigrated to Palestine in 1938 and died in Argentina in 1948.Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 162Published in Monika Richarz: "Juedisches Leben in Deutschland": Vol. II 33 + III 22Partly published by K.Y.Ball-Kaduri in "Yad Vashem Studies", Vol.II, Jerusalem 1958Hirschland, GeorgPosenChildhoodEducation; primary and secondary; 1871-191