Edgar Joseph Feuchtwanger, German historian, writer. Fellow Royal History Society; member International Institute Strategic Studies, Leo Baeck Institute (board directors London Board).
Background
Feuchtwanger was born in Munich. He is the son of Erna Rosina (née Rheinstrom) and lawyer, lecturer, and author, Ludwig Feuchtwanger, and a nephew of novelist and playwright Lion Feuchtwanger. Feuchtwanger was 14 when the Gestapo arrested his father on November
10, 1938, part of the coordinated pogrom known as Kristallnacht, which included the detentions of 30,000 Jews in Austria and Germany, the deaths of 91 and the widespread ransacking of Jewish-owned stores and synagogues.
Education
Master of Arts, Magdalene College, Cambridge, England, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, Southampton University, 1958.
Career
His family was Jewish. As a child, he lived with his family in Munich near the private residence of Adolf Hitler on Grillparzer Strasse. The elder man was then imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp, and 14-year-old Edgar’s sense of security crumbled.
When his father was released six weeks later, the family managed to obtain entry visas to Britain, and in February 1939, Edgar boarded a train bound for London.
In May of that year the family was reunited in England. From 1944 to 1947 he studied at Magdalene College in Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in 1958.
In 2012, Feuchtwanger co-authored a book with French journalist Bertil Scali describing his childhood brushes with Hitler.
Membership
Fellow Royal History Society. Member International Institute Strategic Studies, Leo Baeck Institute (board directors London Board).
Connections
Married Primrose Mary Essame, June 2, 1962. Children: Antonia Mary, Adrian James Ludovic, Judith Amaryllis.