Mann, Frederick Alexander
Life and Cases

Manuscript of an Autobiography. Edited by Wolfgang Ernst. Mit einem Geleitwort von Mathias Schmoeckel.

The hitherto unpublished draft autobiography of F.A. Mann (1907-1991): Frederick Alexander Mann, who arrived in London as a German-Jewish émigré, left this unfinished autobiography. He was forced to leave Germany on the cusp of a promising career in German academia and retrained as an English solicitor to become one of the leading lawyers of his time. From Mann’s introduction: "I write [an autobiography], because I am persuaded that it is my duty to tell the story of a world that has disappeared, but should not be forgotten, - the story of a highly cultured German Jewish bourgeois milieu which perished in Auschwitz, though my nearest and dearest succeeded in escaping. The history of the rise and fall of that social class merits to be preserved, but stands in danger of falling into oblivion on account of the lack of specific material, - no great novel describing its drama and tragedy has yet been written". 249 Seiten, gebunden (Bonner Schriften zur Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Band 11/Bonn University Press/V&R unipress 2021) leichte Lagerspuren, leicht bestoßen, Mängelexemplarstempel auf Fußschnitt/unused, minor shelfwear, slightly bumped, remainder mark stamp on edge