Fritz Neuland
Fritz Neuland (30 January 1889 – 4 November 1969) was a Bavarian lawyer, Jewish leader and Senator.
In the 1920s he had a law office in Munich together with the later Bavarian Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner.
After surviving World War II as a forced labourer, he returned to Munich, where he became President of the Jewish community.
From 1951 until his death in 1969 he served as a Bavarian Senator.
Neuland married a Christian woman named Margarethe, who converted to Judaism upon marrying Neuland. They had a daughter Charlotte Knobloch, who later became President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
Further reading
- Helga Schmöger (ed.): Der Bayerische Senat. Biographisch-statistisches Handbuch. 1947-1997 (= Handbücher zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien. Vol. 10). Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-5207-2, pp. 229–30
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