Ludwig Goldstein became known nationwide through his decisive stance against censorship when a performance of the play Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind was banned in 1910.
[5] From 1906 to 1929, Ludwig Goldstein was chairman of the Goethe Association[6] and in this position promoted both the understanding of literary and artistic modernism and, on numerous excursions, the general interest in architectural monuments and the regional history embodied in them.
Shortly after the Nazis seized power, in March 1933, the Hartungsche Zeitung withdrew all journalistic assignments from its former editor-in-chief because he was declared a "half-Jew" by the new rulers, despite his lack of religious affiliation.
He then wrote a report entitled Heimatgebunden during National Socialism about his life and his experiences in Königsberg during the Nazi era, which was not intended for publication.
[9] Under the impression of the persecution of the Jews, many of Goldstein's former friends turned away; his marriage to his non-Jewish wife Wilhelmine Luise Goldman,[10] whom he had married in Königsberg in 1905, saved him from deportation to his death.