Fritz Neuland (30 January 1889 – 4 November 1969) was a

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

n lawyer, Jewish leader, and

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

. In the 1920s, he had a law office in Munich, together with the later Bavarian Prime Minister

Wilhelm Hoegner Wilhelm Johann Harald Hoegner (23 September 1887 in Munich – 5 March 1980 in Munich) was the second Bavarian prime minister (SPD) after World War II (1945–46 and 1954–57) and father of the Bavarian constitution. He has been the only Socia ...

. After surviving World War II as a forced labourer, he returned to Munich, where he became President of the Jewish community. From 1951 until his death in 1969, he served as a Bavarian Senator. Neuland married a Christian woman named Margarethe, who converted to Judaism upon marrying Neuland. They had a daughter, Charlotte Knobloch, who later became President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

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