Fritz Neuland

Fritz Neuland (born 1889 in Bayreuth, died November 4, 1969 in Munich) 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 WWII 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 non-Jewish woman and had the daughter Charlotte Knobloch, who later became President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

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Helga Schmöger (Bearb.,u.a.): Der Bayerische Senat. Biographisch-statistisches Handbuch 1947-1997, Düsseldorf, Droste-Verlag, 1998, S.229-30 (als Siegfried Neuland; Handbücher zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien; Band 10) ISBN 3-7700-5207-2