Ernst von Simson (born 7 April 1876 in Berlin; died 7 November 1941 in Oxford) was a German lawyer, diplomat and entrepreneur.[1][2]

Ernst von Simson (second from left) on the IG Farben supervisory board, 1926.
Memorial stone for Ernst von Simson in the Dahlem cemetery in Berlin

Family edit

Ernst von Simson was a son of the lawyer August von Simson (1837-1927) and Beate, geb. Jonas, as well as a grandson of Eduard von Simsons. In 1901 he married Martha Oppenheim (1882–1971), a daughter of Franz Oppenheim and great-granddaughter of Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim. The couple had six children, including Dorothea von Simson (1910-1998), who married the lawyer Erckhinger von Schwerin, the art historian Otto von Simson (1912-1993) and the painter Vita Petersen (1915-2011).

Literature edit

  • Georg Simson, Singuna von Simson (ed.): Ernst von Simson (1876-1941). Memories, Berlin: Jonas'sche Family Foundation 2009.
  • Dieter Neitzert: The office between Versailles and Rapallo. Review of State Secretary Ernst von Simson. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 60, 2012, pp. 443–490.
  • Norbert Gross: Ernst von Simson: in the service of Germany: from Versailles to Rapallo (1918–1922), Karlsruhe: Verlag der Gesellschaft für Kulturhistorischedokumentation 2013 (series of publications by the Legal History Museum Karlsruhe; 28) ISBN 978-3-922596-93-6.

References edit

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende, Debora Paffen: Dahlem cemetery and St.-Annen-Kirchhof. A cemetery guide. Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936242-11-9, pp. 46–47.
  2. ^ Charlet Flauaus: The Nazi official and his private library. The books of Reichsleiter Martin Bormann in the Mainz University Library. In: Bibliotheksdienst, Vol. 52, 2018, Issue 6, pp. 455–480, here: pp. 473–474.