Adolf Aronheim (lawyer)

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Adolf Aronheim

Adolf Aronheim (born on January 18, 1818 in Braunschweig ; died on April 18, 1880 there ), also Awraham Aronheim HaCohen , was a German lawyer and politician of the Jewish faith. He was the first Jewish lawyer and the first Jewish member of the Braunschweig State Assembly as well as the founder of a well-known Braunschweig family of lawyers.

life and work

Adolf was the youngest of six children of the businessman Meyer Marcus Aronheim (1774–1825) and his wife Adelheid, geb. Lazarus Berenhart (1777-1847). After a successful visit to the Collegium Carolinum studied Aronheim 1838-1841 Law at the University of Heidelberg , where he also with the dissertation Natura negotii quod dicunt Heuer business secundum regulas juris communis doctorate .

In Braunschweig he was the first Jew to be admitted to the bar exam in the city. After passing this, he was granted permission to practice law. However, his work as a notary was denied him by the authorities because of his Jewish faith, arguing that a Jew could not take an oath from a Christian .

Revolution of 1848/1849

Revolution of 1848/1849 in Braunschweig: "Modern Industries", caricature by Hans von Veltheim . The Braunschweiger politicians are depicted as banter singers : Adolf Aronheim (left), August Hollandt (center) and Egmont Lucius (right).

Together with the lawyers August Hollandt and Egmont Lucius as well as Karl Steinacker and Eduard Vieweg , Aronheim in Braunschweig was one of the driving forces behind the liberal-democratic revolution of 1848. He was on the board of the Braunschweiger Volksverein . Together with Lucius, he was one of the leading intellectual figures of the Braunschweig workers' association founded in the same year . Hollandt and Eduard Trieps recommended that he run for election to the Frankfurt National Assembly , but Aronheim failed. In 1849 he was - as the first Jew - a member of the Braunschweig State Assembly, but resigned his mandate because the state government's policy seemed too conservative to him.

After the revolution of 1848/1849

Later Aronheim was a founding member of the German National Association and a member of the National Liberal Party . After resigning his political mandate, he turned back to the legal profession, in which he was very successful and respected. In 1851 he was a defender in the first "Braunschweig Socialist Trial". In 1850 he was involved in the organization of the Braunschweig Democrats' Congress . In 1860 Aronheim was one of the founders of the German Lawyers' Association . Between 1866 and 1872 he was again a member of the Braunschweig State Parliament.

In 1870 Aronheim became a member of the board of directors of the newly founded Braunschweig Railway Company , which emerged from the privatization of the Duke Braunschweigische Staatseisenbahn . In addition, he was spokesman in the regional court, between 1862 and 1868 representative and from 1868 to 1880 head of the Jewish community in Braunschweig .

In 1878 Aronheim made his last political appearance when, after the two failed assassination attempts on Kaiser Wilhelm I, he called on all bourgeois forces loyal to the Reich to rally against the Social Democrats .

family

Braunschweig, Ziegenmarkt 2: Adolf Aronheim's parents' house.

Adolf Aronheim was married twice. With his first wife, Minna, geb. Adler (1813–1846) he had two children: Felix (1843–1913) and Bertha (1846–1848). Minna Aronheim died a few days after the birth of the second child. In his second marriage Aronheim was with Rosalie, geb. Simon (1827-1896) married, with whom he had four children Max (1849-1905), Berthold (1850-1881), Adelheid (born 1853) and Isaak Richard (1859-1916). The sons Max and Richard, like their father, became famous lawyers. The daughter Adelheid married the lawyer Ferdinand Philipp before Christmas 1872 .

Adolf Aronheim's grave is in the Jewish cemetery on Hamburger Strasse in Braunschweig.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. P. 257.
  2. ↑ a b c Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. P. 258.
  3. ↑ Bilzer, Moderhack: BRUNSVICENSIA JUDAICA. P. 120.
  4. ↑ Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. P. 154.
  5. ↑ a b Schildt: Aronheim. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 31 .
  6. ↑ a b Ebeling: The Jews in Braunschweig. P. 336.
  7. ↑ a b c Bein: Eternal House - Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. P. 152.
  8. ^ Bernhard Kiekenap : Karl and Wilhelm. The sons of the Black Duke. Volume I, Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-930292-39-4 , p. 561.
  9. ↑ a b Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. P. 259.
  10. ^ Georg Eckert : 100 Years of Braunschweig Social Democracy. Part I: From the beginnings to 1890. Braunschweig 1965, p. 35.
  11. ↑ Alphabetic index of those members of the German Juristentag who belonged to the association as early as 1860.
  12. ^ Bernhard Kiekenap : Karl and Wilhelm. The sons of the Black Duke. Volume III: Braunschweig after 1848, Duke Wilhelm and the regents. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-937664-07-6 , p. 94.
  13. ^ Ernst Hamburger : Jews in public life in Germany. Tübingen 1968, based on: Reinhard Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. Biographical notes on the Jews buried in Braunschweig (1797 to 1983). P. 259.
  14. ↑ Hartwig Molzow: Philip, Ferdinand . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 395.
personal data
SURNAME Aronheim, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Avraham Aronheim HaCohen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1880
Place of death Braunschweig