Ludwig Feuchtwanger
German lawyer and lecturer (1885–1947)
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Ludwig Feuchtwanger (28 November 1885 – 14 July 1947) was a German lawyer, lecturer, publisher and author.[1]
Life
Feuchtwanger's ancestors originated from the 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."[2] 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.[3] 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.[1] 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.[4] His son is the London-based historian Edgar Feuchtwanger.[1] 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 (30 September 2007)
