Death of Georg Engels Jewish Novelist Who Was President of German Association of Authors: Was Praise

The death occurred here to-day of the famous novelist, Georg Engel. He would have reached his 65th. birthday on Thursday, the 29th. inst.

Georg Engel was born at Greifswald, and when he came to Berlin he joined the staff of the “Berliner Tageblatt” as literary critic. He wrote a great many plays, novels, and short stories describing chiefly the life of the fisherfolk of Pomerania. One of his plays, “Across the Waters”, which was produced in 1901, was the success of the season, and his novel “Hann Klaus the Philosopher” has run into more than 50 editions. His novels, the “Folk of Moorluke”, and his sea novel “Klaus Stortebecker” have also been very successful. He wrote, too, a number of Jewish books, and notably a Biblical drama “Hadassah”.

He was President for many years of the Association of German Authors.

When he celebrated his 60th. birthday five years ago, the President of the Republic, Field-Marshal von Hindenburg sent him a telegram of congratulation, expressing “the gratitude of the German people for the many works of art rooted in German soil and culture with which you have enriched German literature.”

He also received messages from the German Federal Government, the Prussian Government, the President of the Reichstag, the Lord Mayor of Berlin and from the representatives of many organisations. The Association of German Authors gave a banquet in honour of their President, and the chief speaker was the Minister of Education, Professor Dr. Becker. The Lord Mayor of Berlin also spoke, and the Lord Mayor of Greifswald, where Engel was born, announced at the banquet that the Town Council of Greifswald had placed a marble slab on the front of the house in which Engel was born.