Adolf Heilberg

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Adolf Heilberg (born January 14, 1858 in Wroclaw ; † December 17, 1936 in Berlin ) was a lawyer and notary , since 1883 a lawyer in Wroclaw and wrote about questions of class and civil law .

He was an honorary member of the German Bar Association and active in the peace movement, chairman of the Silesian Bar Association, from 1892 to 1913 chairman of the Liberal Party in Wroclaw, co-founder of the German Peace Society in 1893 , politically active in the German Democratic Party (DDP), member of the Wroclaw Party for 44 years City council and from 1916 to 1918 its chairman.

After he was able to receive numerous honors on his 75th birthday in January 1933, he had to leave Wroclaw two months later to avoid arrest. He moved into a small apartment in Berlin and died there three years later as a victim of a traffic accident.

Major works

  • The private law provisions of the Peace Treaty , 1919
  • Official liability , 1929

literature

  • Tillmann Krach: Jewish lawyers in Prussia. About the importance of the free lawyer and its destruction by National Socialism . CH Beck, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-406-35078-X , p. 433 (short biography)