Max Hirschberg

Max Hirschberg (1883-1964) was a German Jewish Weimar era anti-Nazi criminal defense lawyer and scholar.

Hirschberg confronted in court directly Adolf Hitler; he was imprisoned, but released because of his conduct during World War I and allowed to practice law even after the 1933 Nazi election.

In 1934, he emigrated from Germany to Italy, and later to New York.

Hirschberg wrote mainly about miscarriages of justice.

He was also a friend of Philipp Löwenfeld.^[1]

Bibliography

by himself

• (1998) Jude und Demokrat: Erinnerungen eines Münchener Rechtsanwalts, 1883 bis 1939 (Biographische Quellen zur Zeitgeschichte) (Publisher:) R. Oldenbourg. ISBN 9783486563672
• (1941) "Pathology of Criminal Justice. Innocent Convicted in Three Murder Cases". Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951), Vol.31, No.5 (Jan. - Feb., 1941), pp. 536-550.
• (1940-1941) "Wrongful Convictions". 13 Rocky Mountain Law Review, 1940-1941, pp.20-46.
• (1940) "Convicting the Innocent". 13 Rocky Mountain Law Review 20, December 1940. ("Cites 26 cases of wrongful conviction, 2 in the United States and 24 in Europe, primarily in Germany." (very short review by Hans Sherrer, 2000))

by others

• Douglas G. Morris. Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany). University of Michigan Press, 2005. ISBN 9780472114764 (book review by Timothy McAllister)

References

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