Franz Kaufmann

His role helping underground Jews survive in hiding in Berlin and his execution are documented in The Forger, the memoirs of Cioma Schönhaus.

He served in the first World War in the 10th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment receiving, among other medals, the Iron Cross.

He obtained a doctorate in law and political science and in 1922 was appointed to a specialist post in government finances in the Prussian ministry of the interior.

[2] He continued to enjoy privileged status due his then so-called racially mixed marriage to an Aryan-classified woman and because he brought up his daughter as a Christian.

[3] Kaufmann joined a bible study group with The Confessing Church at Berlin-Dahlem[4] in 1940, and—with other members of the church—began to supply post-office identity cards to on-the-run Jews.