Born:

June 19, 1903

Died:

February 05, 1938

1920 Member of the German-Jewish youth group with social revolutionary ideas “Schwarzer Haufen”; left-wing criminal defense lawyer in the Weimar Republic (including the First May Trial in 1929), known as the “Lawyer of the Proletariat”; arrested in 1933, tortured in several concentration camps; murdered in Dachau concentration camp in 1938.