Ernst Fraenkel | |
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| Born | 26 December 1898  |
| Died | 28 March 1975 (aged 76) |
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Ernst Fraenkel (26 December 1898 – 28 March 1975) was a German-Jewish lawyer and political scientist.[1] Prior to World War II, Fraenkel served as a criminal defense lawyer for Jews who were targeted by the Nazi regime.[2] After the war, he authored the book The Dual State on the political structure of the Nazi regime and subsequently became one of the founding fathers of German political science.[3]
During the Weimar Republic Fraenkel was a member of the social democrats and one of the few jurists who held socialist opinions. According to some historians[weasel words] in the 1930s he was designated to be Attorney General of a possible social-democratic German government. In 1939 he immigrated to the United States where he began to develop his respect for the politics of that country, especially its pluralism and its checks and balances.
- ^ Scheuerman, William E. (2021). "Recalling and/or Repressing German Marxism? The Case of Ernst Fraenkel". Modern Intellectual History. 19 (3): 971–981. doi:10.1017/S1479244321000172. ISSN 1479-2443. S2CID 233627314.
- ^ Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany
- ^ Ladwig-Winters, Simone (2009). Ernst Fraenkel: Ein politisches Leben. Frankfurt am Main: Campus. p. 7.