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Philipp Georg Grünewald, born in Lampertheim in 1891, came from a working-class family and worked as an electrician. He was active in the Weimar Republic in the KPD and other communist organisations, and was arrested by the Gestapo in the spring of 1933, after which he was subject to the obligation to register. His library on the labour movement was confiscated in 1935, and the ULB possesses one of his books.
Grünewald emigrated to Silesia, and returned to Germany after the war as a refugee. His efforts to replace the confiscated items, including the library, were unsuccessful. He died in Lampertheim in 1976. No descendants have yet been identified.
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Raoul Fernand Jellinek-Mercedes was an Austrian-Jewish writer who was born in Algiers. He lived in Baden near Vienna and owned a large art collection of paintings and music as well as an extensive library. After the annexation of Austria, Jellinek-Mercedes was persecuted as a Jew by the National Socialists and had to sell his collection. He committed suicide in 1939.
Several of his books have already been restituted to his descendants by German and Austrian libraries.
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The Theosophical Society advocates an attitude of mind that places the unity of life on the whole earth at the centre of its considerations, both the essential unity of all human beings across all ideological, political and religious differences as well as the connectedness of humanity with all other life on earth, especially the animal and plant world, as well as the connectedness of the exterior with the interior in the sense of recognising the action of an inner spiritual-divine presence that underlies all external events.
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In 1889 the „Deutsche Bund der Vereine für Gesundheitspflege und arzneilose Heilweise“ was founded in Berlin. In 1912, the umbrella organization united about 900 local associations with almost 150.000 members..