Max Rheinstein
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Max Rheinstein (July 5, 1899 − July 9, 1977) was a German-born American jurist and political scientist. He was for many years a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.[1]
Biography
Max Rheinstein was born on July 5, 1899, in
Unlike other SPD-members and Jews, Rheinstein was not dismissed from his position after the Nazi seizure of power, due to the fact that he had fought the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919. In February 1933, he received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation, and emigrated to the United States, where he began working at Columbia Law School. In 1936 he was appointed Max Pam Professor of American and Foreign Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago Law School, a position he held until his retirement in 1968. Rheinstein became an American citizen in 1940. After World War II, Rheinstein returned to Germany, where he was a member of the Legal Division of the Office of Military Government and served in a division of the Allied Control Council in Berlin.
In 1953, Rheinstein was awarded the
Rheinstein moved to Palo Alto, California in 1976 for health reasons. He died in Bad Gastein, Austria on July 9, 1977.
References
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
- Oliver Lepsius: Rheinstein, Max. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4, S. 493 f.
External links
- Guide to the Max Rheinstein Papers 1869-1977 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
- Works by or about Max Rheinstein at Internet Archive
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