| Code | DS/UK/1331 |
| Dates | 1903-1942 |
| Person Name | Freund; Lothar (1903-1942); Dr.phil. |
| Surname | Freund |
| Forenames | Lothar |
| Title | Dr.phil. |
| Relationships | Son of Hermann Freund, businessman (1872-1942) and Helene Freund née Pincus (1872-1942), both parents killed in Treblinka; brother to Gerhard Gustav Freund, who died in Königswinter, near Bonn, under unknown circumstances in 1937 (aged 27) [?]; husband of Edith, teacher, Jewish; detention in France (1943), suicide (1945). |
| History | Studied German Literature and Philosophy in Hamburg and Freiburg, then History of Art at universities of Freiburg, Munich and Hamburg; assistant in the Bibliothek Warburg (1928-1931); assistant of Karl Tolnais (1931-1933); completed doctorate supervised by Saxl (1932); resident in Paris (ca. summer 1933); doctoral thesis 'Studien zur Bildgeschichte der Sibyllen in der neueren Kunst' (published through University of Hamburg in 1936); years of destitution and poverty in France; desperately sought scholarships (1938); deportation from Drancy and murder in Auschwitz in 1942. |
| Source | Wendland, Ulrike, Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil, Vol. 1, Munich 1999, pp.158-159
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/en1569376 [accessed 23/06/2025]
https://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/en.php?MAIN_ID=7&BIO_ID=5759 [accessed 23/06/2025]
https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/10968-hermann-freund/
Letter from Freund, Lothar to Saxl, Fritz, 16/04/1938 (Warburg Institute Archive)
Letter from Warburg Institute to Freund, Lothar, 24/05/1937 (Warburg Institute Archive)
Schäfer, Hans-Michael, 'Die Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg' (Berlin: Logos, 2003)
Grave of Gerhard Freund, Jüdischer Friedhof Ilandkoppel, Hamburg-Ohlsdorf, Germany
StA.Nr.32/1937, in https://wiki.genealogy.net/Angerm%C3%BCnde/Zufallsfunde [DoA 06/08/2025] |
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