Bruno Weil Diary

[Ken S.]

Handwritten but contains a number of photos. From the Center for Jewish History

Notes Bruno Weil was born in Saarlouis, Germany on April 4, 1883. He received his doctorate in law at the University of Würzburg in 1906, and was a lawyer in Strasbourg (1910-1914) and Berlin (1920-1935). He served as the executive secretary of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens and was active in the Deutsche Demokratische Partei (DDP). In 1935 Bruno Weil left Germany for Argentina, and lived in France from 1939-1940, before immigrating to the United States. In the United States, he was a founder of the Axis Victims League and the American Association of Former European Jurists. Bruno Weil died in New York City on November 11, 1961.