Leopold Ladenburg

Leopold Ladenburg (born August 11, 1809 in Mannheim ; † July 24, 1889 there ) was a lawyer and economist . He is considered a pioneer of modern commercial law and was a pioneer of the emancipation of Jews in Baden .

family

Leopold Ladenburg came from the well-known Jewish Ladenburg family in Mannheim and was the son of the banker Wolf Ladenburg (1766–1851), founder of the Ladenburg bank , and Wilhelmine Lorch (1770–1845).

On August 24, 1836, he married his niece Delphine Picard (born April 24, 1814; died January 2, 1882) from Strasbourg ( Alsace ), the daughter of his older sister Fanni (1790–1862) and her first husband Theodor Picard ( 1785–1814) in Strasbourg.

The well-known chemist Albert Ladenburg also came from this marriage .

Life

He attended high school in Mannheim and first studied mathematics at Heidelberg University from November 1827 , but later switched to law in Munich and Heidelberg. In 1832 he received his doctorate. jur. in Heidelberg. He was then in 1833 the superior court - lawyer in Mannheim. In 1832/33, Ladenburg submitted two papers dealing with the equality of Jews in Baden and which were submitted to the Second Chamber of Baden as part of a petition . In it he proved, among other things, that the Baden municipal code of 1831, which only allowed Christians to be elected to the municipal council and mayor, violated the German Federal Act .

In commercial law, Ladenburg excelled with numerous publications, especially in his two specialist areas of stock exchange transactions and the law of bills of exchange and instruction . From 1841 he reported regularly on decisions of the Baden courts in bills of exchange and in the Zeitschrift für Handelsrecht he was the author with most of the practical essays.

Ladenburg was heavily involved in the political and social life of his hometown and his Jewish community , of which he was chairman from 1849 to 1884. In 1839, at the age of 30, he became a member of the large citizens' committee of the city of Mannheim, of which he was to belong until 1875.

He was also heavily involved during the revolution of 1848 : On January 18, 1848, Ladenburg was one of the 34 Mannheim personalities who were responsible for drafting the thirteen petitions of the Mannheim citizenship. On March 1, he was one of the 600 citizens of Mannheim who attended the presentation of the storm petition in Karlsruhe . On March 30th, he traveled to Frankfurt am Main to watch the opening of the preliminary parliament in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt . The experience made “a deep impression” on him. During the Frankfurt National Assembly he was in constant correspondence with the Mannheim MP Friedrich Daniel Bassermann and acted as his liaison to his hometown. Finally he took part in the founding of the Mannheim Patriotic Association , to whose management board he then belonged.

He belonged on March 25, 1865 in the house of his brother Seligmann Ladenburg (1797–1873) as one of six members of the Ladenburg family to the founders of the Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik ( BASF ) in Ludwigshafen , which was launched on April 26, 1865 Commercial register has been entered. In 1866 he became chairman of the board of directors of the non-profit construction company . From 1869 he was a board member of the National Liberal Association in Mannheim.

After his death in 1889, Ladenburg was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Mannheim .

literature

• Leopold Ladenburg: Family tree of the Ladenburg family. Verlag J. Ph. Walther, Mannheim 1882.
• Florian Waldeck : Ladenburg . In: Florian Waldeck: Old Mannheim families . Self-published by Buchdruckerei Max Hahn & Co., Mannheim 1920 (= Writings of the Mannheim Family History Association , Volume 1), ZDB -ID 1447695-2 ) - Reprinted in: Gesellschaft der Freunde Mannheims, Mannheim 1987.
• Karl Otto Scherner: Leopold Ladenburg (1809-1889). Lawyer and pioneer of modern commercial law . In: Anwaltsblatt 11, 1994.
• Hans Fenske , Erich Schneider: The Rhine-Neckar area and the revolution of 1848/49: Revolutionaries and their opponents. Adaptation by Miriam Seidler. Published by the working group of archives in the Rhine-Neckar triangle. Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1998, ISBN 3-929366-64-9 , p. 219.
• Hans-Erhard Lessing : Delphine Ladenburg, Karl Gutzkow and the Draisens - A Mannheim incident with consequences . In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter: rem-magazin 15/2008 . ISBN 978-3-89735-559-0 , pages 6-21.
• Mentioned in: Hermann Schäfer:  Ladenburg, Seligmann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 387 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Otto Scherner: Advocates - Revolutionaries - Lawyers. History of the Mannheim legal profession. Sigmaringen 1997, ISBN 3-7995-0958-5 .
• Ladenburg, Leopold. In: Karl Otto Watzinger : History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-17-008696-0 , p. 112f.
• Oliver Schati: Dr. Leopold Ladenburg (1809–1872) - champion of Jewish emancipation and pioneer of German commercial law . In: William Cross, Volker von Offenberg (ed.): J üdische student of the United Grand Ducal Lyceum - Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim. Portraits from two decades, Mannheim 2014 (series of publications by the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim in cooperation with the Mannheim City Archives - Institute for Urban History; 2), ISBN 978-3-95428-153-4 , pp. 21–32.

Web links

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library