Georg Hermann

Georg Hermann (1871–1943), whose real name was Georg Hermann Borchardt, was a German writer. Born into a Jewish family in Berlin, he initially worked at the Statistical Office before establishing himself as a journalist and author. In addition to literary works, he published essays on art and art history. He became best known for the novels *Jettchen Gebert* (1906) and *Henriette Jacoby* (1908), which portray Berlin’s Jewish middle class during the Biedermeier period and earned him the epithet “the Jewish Fontane.” His other works include a five-volume, partly autobiographical series of novels featuring Fritz Eisner. After fleeing to exile in the Netherlands, Hermann was deported to Auschwitz in 1943 and murdered there.