Law firm - Hugo Rothschild

The address book for Munich from 1905 contains the following entry: Rothschild II Hugo, Rechtsanwalt  Kanzlei und Wohnung Schützenstraße 2/1. - Hugo Rothschild was born in Munich on February 15, 1875. His parents were Gustav Rothschild, a Jewish private teacher born in Goßmannsdorf in 1848, and Bertha Rothschild, née Fleischmann. Gustav Rothschild died at the young age of 27 - Hugo Rothschild was two months old at the time. Hugo Rothschild spent his childhood in Baiersdorf and attended the Fridericianum, a humanistic grammar school in Erlangen, after elementary school. After graduating from high school, Hugo Rothschild studied law in Erlangen and Munich. There he joined the Thuringia student fraternity. In 1903, Hugo Rothschild was admitted to the Munich Regional Courts I and II as well as the Higher Regional Court. In 1910, Hugo Rothschild married the Catholic Ida Boltshauser. The couple had two children: Erna, born in 1911, and Fritz, born in 1916, both baptized Catholics. But after just 11 years, on May 30, 1921, the marriage was dissolved. Everything changed when the National Socialists seized power. Although Hugo Rothschild was a participant in the war (Captain of Infantry Regiment VI in the First World War, from December 1916 court martial councillor in the mobile stage command - awarded the King Ludwig Cross and later the Iron Cross 2nd Class) was exempt from the new law passed on April 7, 1933, which withdrew the license of Jewish lawyers, more and more customers stayed away as anti-Semitic agitation increased. In the course of the so-called "Reichskristallnacht", Hugo Rothschild was trafficked and taken to Dachau. After his release there in December 1938, Hugo Rothschild continued to work as a " consultant". Throughout his life, he always stood up for the victims and persecutees of the Nazi regime. Hugo Rothschild was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp on February 13, 1945.