Georg Hermann

Born in Berlin in 1871, Georg Hermann became one of the most widely read German authors of his time. He is especially remembered for the novels Jettchen Gebert and Henriette Jacoby, works that helped make him a noted chronicler of Berlin life and of German-Jewish family and society.

Hermann was also active in literary life beyond his own fiction. Sources about his career note that he helped found the Schutzverband Deutscher Schriftsteller, an important writers' association, and served as its first chairman in the early 1910s.

After the Nazi rise to power, he left Germany in 1933 and lived in exile. In 1943, after being caught in occupied Europe, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. That tragic end gives his writing an added historical weight today, especially for readers interested in Berlin, Jewish life, and the lost world his books preserve.