A Tribute to Sir Otto Kahn-Freund (1900–1979)

When I first met Otto Kahn-Freund in 1920, his charm made me his lifelong friend. His was the cheerfulness of a rich nature, but also a penetrating mind and the readiness to stand on his opinion and to express it forcefully.After the First World War Kahn-Freund studied history and, later on, law; partly at his home-town university Frankfurt-am-Main and partly in Heidelberg and Leipzig. In a circle of animated students he was one of the most remarkable. He finished his law studies in 1925 summa cum laude with a doctoral thesis on the effects of collective labour agreements. From early on labour law was one of the topics nearest to his interest, perhaps urged by his socialist conviction, certainly stimulated by our teacher Professor Hugo Sinzheimer. Kahn-Freund belonged to the inner circle of Sinzheimer's pupils and also worked some time in his advocate's practice. Labour law was to become a leitmotif in Kahn-Freund's own professional way, up to his last work—a series of lectures he called “Labour Relations —Heritage and Adjustment”, which he held in 1978 in the British Academy under the auspices of the Thanksgiving Offering to Britain Fund donated by Jewish refugees settled in England (the lectures were published in 1979).

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Leon Kozłowski (1892-1944) – krakowski etap życia naukowca, żołnierza, polityka

Przegląd Archeologiczny ◽

10.23858/pa69.2021.2065 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 69 ◽

pp. 243-278

Author(s):

Marzena Woźny

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

Natural Sciences ◽

World War ◽

The Caucasus ◽

Doctoral Thesis ◽

Arts And Sciences ◽

The First World War ◽

The Crimea ◽

The University ◽

First World

Leon Kozłowski (1892-1944), the outstanding prehistorian, soldier, and politician, was connected with Kraków from the beginning of his studies until he obtained his postdoctoral degree. He studied natural sciences and then archaeology at the Jagiellonian University while being also an unofficial assistant at the Archaeological Museum of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków. The Academy appointed him to explore Lusatian cemeteries near Tarnobrzeg, to excavate a Palaeolithic site in Jaksice (former Miechów district), megalithic graves in Kuyavia, and the Mammoth Cave in the Polish Jura. He collected materials for the Academy during a scientific expedition to the Crimea and the Caucasus organized by Robert Rudolf Schmidt (1882-1950) from the University of Tübingen. During the First World War, Kozłowski joined the Polish Legions and was thus involved in the struggle for Polish independence. He moved to Warsaw to write his doctoral thesis based on the collection of the Erazm Majewski Museum and then defended it in Tübingen. After he gained his postdoctoral degree in Kraków, he took the chair of prehistory in Lwów/Lviv and his contacts with the Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków came to a close. It was only in 1935 that he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy.

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Virgine Renard: The Great War and Postmodern Memory. The First World War in Late 20 th-Century British Fiction (1985-2000) (Comparatism and Society, 27). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013.

Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen ◽

10.37307/j.1866-5381.2015.02.30 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Tom Nolan

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

Great War ◽

World War ◽

Frankfurt Am Main ◽

The First World War ◽

British Fiction ◽

The Great War ◽

First World

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William Mayer-Gross: an appreciation

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291700023126 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 11-18 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Aubrey Lewis

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

Psychiatric Clinic ◽

World War ◽

Doctoral Thesis ◽

Western Front ◽

Base Hospital ◽

The First World War ◽

Medical Examinations ◽

First World

William Mayer-Gross was born in the ancient Rhineland town of Bingen. He attended the Gymnasium in Worms and studied medicine in Heidelberg, Kiel and Munich. He took his final medical examinations in Heidelberg in 1912. He then became an assistant in the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic and in 1913 presented his doctoral thesis, which dealt with the phenomenology of abnormal feelings of felicity. On the outbreak of the First World War he was called up and served for a year on the Western front; he was then in 1915 assigned to duties in a base hospital where neurotic soldiers were being cared for.

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Seybert Gislinde / Thomas Stauder (Hrsg.), Heroisches Elend. Der Erste Weltkrieg im intellektuellen, literarischen und bildnerischen Gedächtnis der europäischen Kulturen/Misères de l’héroïsme. La Première Guerre mondiale dans la mémoire intellectuelle, littéraire et artistique des cultures européennes/Heroic Misery. The First World War in the Intellectual, Literary and Artistic Memory of the European Cultures. T. 1 u. 2. Frankfurt am Main/Bern/Bruxelles, Lang 2014

Historische Zeitschrift ◽

10.1515/hzhz-2015-0258 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 300 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Ulrich Sieg

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

World War ◽

Frankfurt Am Main ◽

The First World War ◽

First World

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Whither Industrial Democracy? The Federal Government and Organized Labour in the Telegraph Industry during the First World War

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875813001515 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 517-539

Author(s):

STEVEN PARFITT

Keyword(s):

Federal Government ◽

First World War ◽

Industrial Democracy ◽

World War ◽

Labour Relations ◽

Federal Intervention ◽

The First World War ◽

First World ◽

Telephone Administration

The recent historiography of American labour in the First World War pays special attention to the idea of industrial democracy. The federal government, historians argue in various ways, played a major role in defining that term and affecting how trade unionists, employers and all kinds of industrial and political reformers fought over and applied their own definitions of industrial democracy. In this article I look at one case study of wartime federal intervention in labour relations, between the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America (CTUA) and the Western Union Telegraph Company. During the war both parties were subject to intervention from the National War Labor Board, the main federal arbitration agency, and then, after nationalization of the telegraphs, the federal Telegraph and Telephone Administration. The experience of the CTUA is more or less at odds with recent general accounts of First World War labour. In this article I argue that this experience points towards a change of emphasis regarding federal-style industrial democracy, placing greater stress on its role in leading directly to the non and antiunion industrial policies practised by many employers in the 1920s, in addition to its encouragement of trade union growth in wartime.

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Labour, British radicalism and the First World War

10.7228/manchester/9781526109293.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

World War ◽

Charlie Chaplin ◽

Labour Relations ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

The First World War ◽

The Great War ◽

Parliamentary Politics ◽

First World

This volume offers a series of new essays on the British left – broadly interpreted – during the First World War. Dealing with grassroots case studies of unionism from Bristol to the North East of England, and of high politics in Westminster, these essays probe what changed, and what remained more or less static, in terms of labour relations. For those interested in class, gender, and parliamentary politics or the interplay of ideas between Britain and places such as America, Ireland and Russia, this work has much to offer. From Charlie Chaplin to Ellen Wilkinson, this work paints a broad canvass of British radicalism during the Great War.

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