Oppler Family Photographs 1896

Oppler family.

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The Opplers were an ethnically Jewish and German family from the disputed region of Lorraine. After the first World War, Alsace-Lorraine was returned to French control and the Opplers were forced to leave, moving to Berlin. There, family member Alfred C. Oppler (1893-1982) became a jurist and civil servant. Although he had been raised as a Protestant, after the Nazi party took power Oppler was demoted due to his Jewish heritage and expelled from the civil service. In 1939, he and hi...

Oppler, Ellen C.

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Oppler, Alfred C. (Alfred Christian), 1893-1982

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Biographical note: German emigre jurist and administrator. He was born in Thionville, Alsace-Lorraine and studied law and political science ast the universities of Munich, Freiburg, Berlin, and Strasslburg. His German career included service in the Prussian Ministry of Finances at Berlin, 1923-27; and as a associate justice of the Prussian Supreme Administrative Court and vice president of the Prussian Supreme Disciplinary Court, 1931-35. Oppler immigrated to the United ...