Samuel Senger ( German: Samuel Saenger ; February 17, 1864 , Novye Province , now Lithuania - May 6, 1944 , Los Angeles ) - German journalist and diplomat .
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Since 1875, he lived with his family in Berlin. He studied in Berlin, then in England and France, in 1888 he defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Freiburg . He taught at the gymnasium for some time. From 1898 he was published in the newspaper Theodore Barth Die Nation , in 1900-1907. Maximilian Garden newspaper staffer Die Zukunft . In 1908-1933 one of the editors of the newspaper Neue Rundschau , devoted mainly to art and culture. At the same time in 1917 he was involved in diplomatic work and sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Stockholm to observe the international socialist conference held there. In 1919, as the personal representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count Brockdorf-Ranzau, he went to Prague to organize the German embassy there and with his reports to the Berlin authorities played a significant role in establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries. Until 1929 he continued to be in the diplomatic service.
In 1933, after the Nazis came to power, he lost his newspaper job due to Jewish descent. In 1939, he got the opportunity to travel to France, and in 1941 to the United States.
He was married to the violinist Irmgard (Irme) Senger Set [2] . Their two daughters became pianists; the eldest Elizabeth (1898-1990) was married first to the artist Eugen Spiro , then to the publicist and translator Josef Shapiro , the youngest Magdalena (1907-1991) - first to the composer Franz Waxmann , then to the architect Otto Firle .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 116743379 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Saenger-Sethe, Sänger-Sethe, Saenger, Sänger, geb. Sèthe, Sethe, Irma, Irmgard // Europäische Instrumentalistinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts (German)
Literature
- Biographisches Handbuch des deutschen Auswärtigen Dienstes 1871–1945. Band 4: S. Herausgegeben vom Auswärtigen Amt, Historischer Dienst, Bearbeiter: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn ua 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3 , S. 4f.
- Joseph Walk (Hrsg.): Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945 . hrsg. vom Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, München 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .