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


Family

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

* 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) .


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