Lichtenstaedter, Siegfried (1865-1942): The Complete Prints in the BSB

The Bavarian State Library has the world's largest collection of literary works by the Munich Jewish tax official and writer Siegfried Lichtenstaedter (1865-1942). Born in Baiersdorf, he joined the Bavarian financial administration after his studies, which led him first to linguistics and oriental studies and later to law. He lived in Munich from 1898. His works critically examine issues of international politics, anti-Semitism, Zionist trends, and Jewish life practices. In order not to jeopardize his professional position at the Bavarian Court of Auditors, he published many of his works under pseudonyms such as Ne'man, U.R. Deutsch and Dr. Mehemed Emin Efendi. Lichtenstaedter's texts were put on the list of harmful and undesirable literature by the Nazi regime in 1938. Siegfried Lichtenstaedter was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on 25 June 1942 and murdered there on 6 December 1942.