Ernst Fraenkel: Academic correspondence

Ernst Fraenkel was a Jewish professor of economics and social history. He was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia, and served as a German officer in the First World war. Fraenkel was elected to the Silesian provincial Landtag in the 1930s and acted as secretary of the Gesellschaft für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin. In 1939 he emigrated to the UK, returning to Germany in 1947. Here he became director of the Institut für Wirtschafts und Sozialgeschichte at the University of Frankfurt am Main, where he died in 1971.

Not to be confused with the lawyer and political scientist of the same name who lived 1898-1975.