Born in Berlin in 1901 to a drug store owner, Fritz Friedlaender was a Social Democratic journalist, teacher and activist of the Centralverein. He contributed to Der Morgen and to the Philo-Lexikon and was an editor of the Zeitschrift fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland . From 1933 to 1938 he was a teacher at Jewish schools in Berlin. After his arrest in Sachsenhausen concentration camp he emigrated to Shanghai in 1939 and to Australia in 1946. He died there in 1980.
From the guide to the Fritz Friedlaender Collection, 1933-1972, (Leo Baeck Institute)