#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)

Part II: Between 1934 and 1937 Fraenkel wrote essays that were published in the exile journal “Sozialistische Warte” of the underground group #ISK. In 1936 he started working on his “The Dual State” manuscript, where he critically analyzed the national socialist regime. (22/38) In this book, Fraenkel, unpacks decisions of the #German courts and the development of #judicial practice, to develop his central theory that the legal-political system of National Socialist Germany consisted of a “prerogative state” and a “normative state”. (23/38)