Ludwig Rawitscher, formerly judge of the Frankfort District Court, died in Freiburg today. In the obituary notice the “Frankfurter Zeitung” writes:
“Judge Rawitscher could not attain high rank in his profession, although he was eminently suited for it, because he refused to renounce Judaism.
“Rawitscher was a Jew by conviction and to him it would have been an act of treason to secure promotion by baptism. His name was put forward time after time by men eminent in the profession who felt that his powers should be placed at the disposal of the State in a higher position than that which he occupied, but all these attempts failed. Younger men were promoted over his head, men whose claim was not so great as his own, but who did not have the drawback of Judaism which he insisted on retaining. The unworthy attitude of the Prussian Ministry of Justice at that time remains a dark spot on Prussia’s shield.”
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