Herman Badt

Hermann Badt (born July 13, 1887 in Breslau; died July 16, 1946 in Tel Aviv) was a high-ranking Prussian official, politician and Zionist activist.

Life and Work

Hermann Badt came from an educated Jewish family; his father was a high school professor, and his sister Bertha Badt-Strauss became a writer. After graduating from high school, Badt studied law in Berlin and Breslau. In 1908 he passed the first state law examination and received his doctorate in 1909 with Rudolf Leonhard and Otto Fischer. He then worked as a court trainee until 1914. At the beginning of the First World War, he was a soldier for a short time, but was released from military service because of an injury. Badt passed the second state examination in law in 1914 and was then employed as a military judge on the eastern front until the end of the war.

After the end of the war, Badt entered the Prussian civil service. He was initially a research assistant, then government assessor (as the first of the Jewish faith) and government councillor. From 1920, Badt was a Ministerialrat. At times he was a personal assistant to the state minister Wolfgang Heine. From 1927 Badt was a Ministerial Director. As such, Badt was head of the legal and constitutional department of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. From 1926 to 1932 he was the representative of the Prussian state government at the Reichsrat. After the Prussian offensive in 1932, he was replaced by Erwin Schütze and represented the Prussian government of Otto Braun before the State Court of Justice.

In addition to his professional activities, Badt was a member of the Prussian state parliament for the SPD from 1922 to 1926. In addition, he was already heavily involved in the Zionist movement in Germany before the First World War. In 1929 he became a member of the Grand Council of the Prussian State Association of Jewish Communities and the Pro Palestine Committee. Immediately after the start of National Socialist rule, Badt emigrated to Palestine in 1933. There he developed plans to improve the immigration of Jews from the German sphere of influence through the transfer of goods. In May–June 1933 he traveled to Italy and Switzerland for the organization Palestine Development and the Netherlands. In Palestine itself he was involved in founding a settlement community on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.

Literature

Julius H. Schoeps: Badt, Hermann. In: derselbe (Hrsg.): Neues Lexikon des Judentums. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh/München 1992, ISBN 3-570-09877-X, S. 58.
Yehîʿēl Ilsar: Im Streit für die Weimarer Republik. Stationen im Leben des Hermann Badt. Transit, Berlin 1992 ISBN 3-88747-075-3
Hartwig Wiedebach: Hermann Cohens Auseinandersetzung mit dem Zionismus. Briefe von Hermann Cohen und Hermann Badt an Martin Buber. In: Jewish studies quarterly (JSQ) Bd. 6. Nr. 4. Mohr, Tübingen 1999, S. 373–388
Yehîʿēl Ilsar: Hermann Badt. Von der Vertretung Preußens im Reichsrat zum Siedlungsprojekt am Genezareth-See. In: Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte. Wallstein, Göttingen 1991 Bd. 20. S. 339–362
Badt, Hermann, in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933. Band 1: Politik, Wirtschaft, Öffentliches Leben. München : Saur, 1980, S. 31
Badt, Hermann, in: Joseph Walk (Hrsg.): Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918–1945. München : Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4, S. 17
The legal nature of the principles governing the substantive legal force of civil judgments . Fleischmann, Breslau 1909 (Breslau, Jur. Diss. of July 30, 1909)

References

Acta Borussica: Protokolle des preußischen Staatsministeriums, Band 11/II. (PDF-Datei; 1,92 MB)

Literature by and about Herman Badt in the German National Library catalogue
Guide to the Bertha Badt-Strauss (seiner Schwester) Collection, 1941–1961, AR 3945

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