Hugo Neumann was a German

Germany

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 jurist, politician of the Free City of Danzig

Free City of Danzig

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 and writer.

Biography

Neumann was born in Berent

Koscierzyna

Kościerzyna is a town in Kashubia in Gdańsk Pomerania region, northern Poland, with some 24,000 inhabitants. It has been the capital of Kościerzyna County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; previously it was in Gdańsk Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998...

 (modern Kościerzyna, Poland) to Max Neumann. He studied law at the Universities of Berlin, Königsberg

University of Königsberg

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 and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in law in 1904.

Neumann worked as a lawyer and Notary

Notary

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 in Danzig (Gdańsk) and became a member of the Danzig parliament

Volkstag

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 in 1920.

As a member of the Jewish Community of Danzig

Jewish community of Danzig

The Jewish Community of Gdańsk dates back at least to the 15th century. For many centuries it was separated from the rest of the city. Under Polish rule, Jews acquired limited rights in the city in the 16th and 17th centuries. After the incorporation into Prussia the community largely assimilated...

 he emigrated to France

France

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 in 1938 because of the growing influence of Nazis in Danzig. After World War II

World War II

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, from 1945 to 1948, he worked as a legal advisor for the French delegation at the Allied Control Council

Allied Control Council

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 in Berlin

Berlin

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.

From 1956 to 1962 he was the chairman of the board of directors of the Swiss "Internationale Treuhandgruppe" (ITAG).

Neumann published several books using the pseudonym "Felix Norbert". He died in Paris.

Publications

• Die öffentlich-rechtliche Stellung der Ärzte, Heidelberg 1904. (Dissertation; as Hugo Neumann)
• Schicksal und Anteil. 3 Erzählungen, Berlin 1948 (as Felix Norbert)
• Finale. Blätter aus einem Danziger Tagebuch, Berlin s.a. 1948 (as Felix Norbert)
• Barbara, Berlin 1948 (as Hugo Neumann )
• Von der Weichsel zur Seine, 1951 (biography)