DOCS.
675,
676
DECEMBER
1918
713
P.
S. Please,
do
not
under
any
condition let the matter
wait.
If
you
have
no
time
for
the
affair,
then
please
send
the
lists
to Mr.
Scheel
unchanged
or
send
them
with the
same
request
to
another
person
who would be
ready
and
in
a
position
to
advise
us.
Recipient’s
note:
“To
Dr. Arnold Berliner
with
regards
& request
to
execute,
Haber.”
676. Deposition
in Divorce
Proceedings
Schöneberg, Berlin,
23
December
1918
Public
Hearing
of the
Royal
The
District
Court.
In
re
divorce matter
s
Einstein
versus
Einstein
Present:
D[istrict] C[ourt]
Justice Jacobi
as
Magistrate,
Sol[icitor]
Hildebrandt
as
Court Clerk.
In
the
original
with attachments.
Respectfully
returned
to
Regional
Court
Section II in Zurich.
Schöneberg,
Berlin,
23
December
1918.
The District
Court
Sec.
10.
Jacobi.
Appeared:
Upon producing
the writ
of
summons,
Professor Einstein
of
(Schöneberg,
Berlin,
5
Haberland
St.), proved
his
identity.[1]
He
requested
to be heard
today
already,
as
he
was
unable to
come on
January
3rd. He
was
cautioned
to
speak
the truth and declared:
My
name
is
Albert,
I
am
39
years
old.
Religion,
dissenter.
O[n the] m[erits
of
the
case]:[2]
1.
It
is
correct
that
I
committed
adultery.
I
have been
living
together
with
my
cousin,
the
widow Elsa
Einstein,
divorced
Löwenthal,
for
about
4 1/2
years
and
have been
continuing
these intimate relations since
then.[3]
My
wife,
the
Plaintiff,
has known since the
spring
summer
of 1914
that intimate
relations
exist between
me
and
my
cousin. She has made her
displeasure
known to
me.
2.
I
do not wish to claim
separate
grounds
for
a
divorce
against my
wife.