CARL LAEMMLE - LAEMMLE`S List -

Using letters from the National Archives in Washington D.C., this work by Udo Bayer documents Laemmle´s untiring use of his influence, money, power and energy to provide hundreds of persecuted German Jews with affidavits and save them from the National Socialist regime. His unique humanitarian engagement testifies to his deep compassion for the fate of the Jews in Germany and his selfless readiness to help.

Udo Bayer studied history, political science and German literature in Tübingen, Munich and Berlin. He was a teacher and assistant director at Carl Laemmle Highschool in Laupheim.. In 1975 he received his PhD in philosophy under the supervision of Max Bense and Elisabeth Walther-Bense in Stuttgart, publishing numerous articles on Charles S. Peirce´s semiotics. His chief interest lay, until his death in 2015, in the city-history of Laupheim. In particular, it was the native Laupheimer, Carl Laemmle, whose success story and humanitarian engagement captivated Udo Bayer´s interest as a historian. Thanks to Bayer´s initiative, the local high school had its name changed to Carl Laemmle High School in 1993, something which proved to be an important step in re-establishing trust in the Laemmle family...He was doing 25 years of meticulous research on Carl Laemmle - in intensive exchange with the Laemmle family and their relatives, as well as research in various archives and contact to historians in Germany, the USA, Israel and Japan.