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#Spotlightonjurists: In this 2-part thread, @siavash_moeini presents Ernst Fraenkel, a #Jewish jurist and political-scientist, who is the author of “The Dual State”, a treaty on the structure of the #Nazi regime, and one of the founding fathers of German political science. (1/38) 
Part I: Fraenkel was born into a Jewish family in Cologne on 28 December 1898 as the youngest of three children. At the age of 16, Fraenkel became an orphan and together with his older sister Marta moved in with their uncle Joseph Epstein to live in Frankfurt am Main. (2/38)
As a pupil, Fraenkel developed an interest in historical questions and he focused in high school, among other things, on ancient constitutional studies. In 1916, Fraenkel passed his “Notabitur” examination. (3/38)
