Albert Wolffson

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Albert Wolffson 1905

Albert Martin Wolffson (born July 21, 1847 in Hamburg ; † December 16, 1913 ) was a Hamburg lawyer and liberal politician.

Life

Wolffson was a son of the Hamburg lawyer Isaac Wolffson . His mother, who worked as a volunteer inspector in one of Charlotte Paulsen's custody facilities , died early, like the sisters Martha and Helene. Another sister was Agnes Wolffson . After studying law, from which he graduated in Göttingen in 1868, Wolffson was on July 21, 1869 in Hamburg as a lawyer admitted. He entered his father's office. His father left the law firm in the mid-eighties and Max Schramm and Otto Dehn became partners in the very successfully developing law firm. From 1895 Wolffson was a lawyer for Hamburg authorities in civil litigation.

Like his father, Wolffson was very politically active and belonged to Hamburg's citizenship from 1880 to 1910 . Wolffson was denied the opportunity to become a member of the Hamburg Senate because he was of Jewish faith . According to the Hamburg constitution, which was valid until 1918, senators had to be baptized . Wolffson was nevertheless very influential and was nicknamed the kingmaker , as he was a faction leader of the so-called faction of the right for a long time , the strongest faction in the Hamburg citizenship. He thus had a decisive influence on who was elected to the Senate.

Cushion stone Albert Wolffson, family grave, Ohlsdorf cemetery

Wolffson was by nature a liberal politician, the abolition of citizens' money as a prerequisite for elections and the lowering of the census after the cholera epidemic of 1892 were largely due to his initiative. Wolffson had a formative influence on the politician Carl Braband , whose guardian he was. He would later become leader of the United Liberals Group . In the constitutional debate on the electoral law bill, which led to the so-called electoral robbery in 1906 , he voted against the deterioration in the electoral law and then resigned from his parliamentary group, since the deterioration in the electoral law was decided. He did not join the newly formed Group of United Liberals, but remained non-attached for the next four years.

Very few MPs who spoke out against the bill retained their old reputation. One of these few was the excellent lawyer Dr. Albert Wolffson ....

From 1903 until his death Wolffson was a member of the supervisory board of the Vereinsbank in Hamburg . From 1905 to 1913 Wolffson was a member of the supervisory board of the mortgage bank in Hamburg .

Albert Wolffson was buried in the area of ​​the Wolffson family grave on the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square S 11 (near chapel 1).

The Geffcken case

Wolffson was a sought-after lawyer, for example he defended Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken when he was accused and arrested in a trial brought by Otto von Bismarck . Geffcken, was accused of betraying state secrets because he kept the diary entries of the deceased Emperor Friedrich III , who was his friend . had published. Bismarck wanted to make an example, and Geffcken spent 90 days in pre-trial detention in the Moabit cell prison before Wolffson caused the case to be discontinued .

Web links

Commons : Albert Wolffson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Wolffson, Agnes . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 351-352 .
  2. ↑ Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg lawyers from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-923725-17-5 , p. 366
  3. ^ Adolf Buehl: From the old council chamber: Memories 1905–1918, Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3767202271 , p. 27
  4. ↑ The corresponding law was passed on November 2, 1896, see Leo Lippmann : Mein Leben und Meine Official Activity, Hamburg 1964, p. 146
  5. ↑ see Lippmann: My Life and My Official Activity, p. 138
  6. ↑ Annual reports of the Vereinsbank in Hamburg, for the years 1903–1914
  7. ↑ 1871-1996 Hypothekenbank in Hamburg, Ed. Hypothekenbank in Hamburg, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3000006605 , p. 158
  8. ↑ Celebrity Graves
personal data
SURNAME Wolffson, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolffson, Albert Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1913