Fritz Neuland Memorial Award towards anti-Semitism established

The Fritz Neuland Memorial Award was launched on Monday in Munich for distinctive dedication to combating anti-Semitism. Sooner or later, the award shall be given yearly to 2 attorneys or members of the police and judges who “go above and past the decision of obligation,” as introduced by the Ministry of Bavarian Justice. They’re awarded with 7,500 euros every.

The award was introduced by Michael Frederic Fischbaum from Munich in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice and the Inside of the Free State. It’s devoted to the lawyer and second long-term president of the Israeli Cultural Neighborhood in Munich and Higher Bavaria, Fritz Neuland.

He was the daddy of the present president, Charlotte Knobloch. She shall be on the jury along with Fischbaum, the ministers Georg Eisenreich and Joachim Herrmann, the state authorities’s commissioner for anti-Semitism, Ludwig Spaenle, and the co-initiator of the award, CSU member of state parliament Josef Schmid.

Neuland saved a grandmother from focus camps

» With out Fritz Neuland I’d not exist on this planet. “Due to his brave habits in direction of the Nationwide Socialists, he saved my grandmother from the most definitely switch to the Dachau focus camp and thus performed a key position in surviving the Holocaust,” mentioned Fischbaum, 55. His grandmother went Maireade Schreiner was delivered to courtroom in Munich after the passing of the “Jewish Legal guidelines” in the course of the Nazi period as a result of she didn’t signal the title “Sara” imposed on her by the “Race Loaders”.

Schreiner was to be arrested in courtroom and brought to Stadelheim jail, and from there to Dachau focus camp. Legal professional Basic Neuland, who as a Jew was solely allowed to characterize different Jews, then boldly requested the decide to let his consumer go dwelling to say goodbye. The decide complied, in order that Schreiner was instantly hidden at dwelling and brought to security in numerous locations by different residents of Munich, together with non-Jews.

Father stays a job mannequin for Knobloch

Knobloch, who’s 91, mentioned it was an actual pleasure that her father’s reminiscence was being stored alive with this award. A passionate lawyer, he all the time believed within the democratic constitutional state and actively campaigned for it, together with as a member of the Bavarian Senate. He was satisfied {that a} democratic Germany may very well be the house of the Jews once more, even after the crime towards humanity of the Holocaust.

»He’s nonetheless a job mannequin for me right this moment along with his convictions and this hope. At present, when democracy and Jewish life in our nation are in nice hazard, it may be so for others too,” mentioned the previous president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.