Fritz Neuland was a Bavaria

Bavaria

Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

n lawyer, Jewish leader and Senator.

In the 1920s he had a law office in Munich together with the later Bavarian Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner

Wilhelm Hoegner

Wilhelm Hoegner was the second Bavarian prime minister after World War II and father of the Bavarian constitution. He has been the only Social Democrat to hold this office....

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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

Charlotte Knobloch

Charlotte Knobloch was elected President of Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland in June, 2006. She is also Vice President of the European Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress...

, who later became President of the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland

Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland

The Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland is a federation of German Jews organizing many Jewish organisations in Germany. It was founded on July 19, 1950, as a response to the increasing isolation of German Jews by the international Jewish community and increasing interest in Jewish affairs by the ...

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Further reading

• 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