Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy

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Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born October 25, 1874 in Karlsruhe , † November 26, 1936 in Oxford ) was a political scientist and legal scholar specializing in international law .

Life

Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a grandson of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and a son of the historian Karl Mendelssohn Bartholdy from his marriage to Mathilde, nee. Merkl (1848-1937). He studied law at the University of Leipzig , at the University of Heidelberg and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , with Adolf Wach among others . In Leipzig he received his doctorate in 1898 with a dissertation on the subject of contributions to the interpretation of § 72 of the civil process order . He completed his habilitation in 1900 with a thesis on the limits of legal force .

In March 1905 he married his cousin Dorothea Wach (born June 8, 1875 in Bonn , † August 18, 1949 in Oxford), called Dora, a daughter of Adolf Wachs. The couple had no children of their own and adopted the girls Lea (* 1916, married Stauffer) and Brigitte (1920–2005).

In April 1905 he received an associate professorship for international (private) law at the University of Leipzig, but already moved to Würzburg in October of the same year , where he succeeded Ernst Jaeger . In 1920 he was finally appointed full professor for civil procedure , international law and comparative law at the University of Hamburg . There he founded the Hamburg Institute for Foreign Policy as the first German political science research institution in 1922 , which was financed, among other things, by the Warburg bankers , and at the same time built up the America Institute. He strongly advocated the revision of the Versailles Treaty and was also one of Germany's representatives in the Paris peace treaty negotiations . From 1928 to 1933 he was among others, together with Otto Opet and Julius Magnus, editor of the renowned archive for copyright, film and theater law (UFITA) .

In September 1933, Mendelssohn Bartholdy was retired because of his Jewish origins. On November 18, 1933, the distressed Mendelssohn Bartholdy called on William E. Dodd , who at that time was serving as Ambassador of the United States of America in Berlin . Dodd tried to stand up for Mendelssohn Bartholdy, whom he held in high esteem, and corresponded on the same day with the Carnegie Institute in New York to obtain a two-year salary for Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

On January 1, 1934, he was forced to resign as head of the Institute for Foreign Policy and emigrated to Great Britain in the same year. Here he worked as a senior fellow at Balliol College in Oxford until his death. The library and archive of the Hamburg institute were confiscated and placed under Ribbentrop's patronage ; it was then combined with the newly founded German Institute for Foreign Policy Research in Berlin.

Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy was an excellent pianist and was also active as a composer of songs. In addition, he published poems and wrote an opera libretto. Through his wife he also came into possession of the entire 27 volumes of his grandfather's correspondence, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, from which he occasionally published excerpts. After his death - he died of stomach cancer in 1936  - it came to the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

Honors

The Law Faculty of the University of Hamburg has in 2012 in memory of one of the founders of legal research in Hamburg a structured doctorate program under the name Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law launched.

Also in 2012 a student residence hall in Hamburg, the Albrecht-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Haus , was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Judge's Empire , Strasbourg: Trübner, 1908
  • English law , 1909
  • International Criminal Law , 1910
  • The Irish Senate , Leipzig: Meiner, 1913
  • The German essence in Reger's work , Würzburg: Banger, 1916
  • Civic virtues in war and peace , Tübingen: Mohr, 1917
  • The League of Nations , 1918
  • The People's Will , 1919
  • From the League of Nations and Public Opinion , Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1923
  • Memory of Max Reger , Zurich: Orell, 1924
  • Diplomacy , 1927
  • One or two-chamber system? , in: Gerhard Anschütz u. a. (Ed.), The foundations of politics (= Handbuch der Politik , Volume 1), 3rd edition, Berlin / Leipzig: Rothschild 1920, pp. 352–358
As editor
  • Files of the Foreign Office ( The Great Politics of the European Cabinets ), 40 volumes, 1922 to 1927
  • European Talks , Journal, 1922-1933

Artistic works (selection)

literature

  • Paul Seabury, Die Wilhelmstrasse , Frankfurt: Nest 1956. From the English, 1954 (essentially reports on the Wilhelmstrasse Trial and the numerous, usually lying memories and justifications of AA people, which is a weakness of the book; otherwise rich in material and timely)
  • Alfred Vagts : Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy. A picture of life . In: Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel (ed.): Mendelssohn Studies , Volume 3. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-428-04349-9 , pp. 201-225.
  • Manfred Löwisch, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Albrecht , in: Badische Biographien , New Series, Volume 3, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1990, ISBN 3-17-009958-2 , pp. 184-186 ( online )
  • Gisela Gantzel Kress:  Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Albrecht. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 62 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Detlev Fischer , Legal History Tours through Karlsruhe: Residenz des Rechts (= series of publications by the Legal History Museum Karlsruhe , Issue 10), Karlsruhe: Society for Cultural History Documentation, 2005, ISBN 3-922596-65-7
  • Rainer Nicolaysen , advocate of understanding - the lawyer and peace researcher Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy , in: ders. (Ed.), The main building of the University of Hamburg as a place of memory , Hamburg 2011, SS 199–227 ( PDF )
  • Thomas Lackmann, Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy: International lawyer and pioneer of German peace research , ed. from the Centrum Judaicum , Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95565-097-1 (= Jewish miniatures , volume 169)

Web links

Wikisource: The Great Politics of the European Cabinets 1871–1914  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Göppinger : Jurists of Jewish descent in the “Third Reich”: disenfranchisement and persecution. 2nd, completely revised edition. Beck, Munich 1990, p. 382.
  2. ^ Diplomat on hot ground, diary of the US Ambassador William E. Dodd in Berlin 1933–1938, edited by William E. Dodd jun. and Martha Dodd with an introduction by Charles A. Beard, Verlag der Nation Berlin, 6th edition 1970, p. 77.
  3. ↑ Seabury, p. 88. Last name mistakenly with hyphen.
  4. ↑ Aufgetischt - the long 19th century , 2 December 2008 meeting of the Mendelssohn Society, accessed online on November 4, 2013
  5. Jump up concert and exhibition opening ( Memento from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  6. ↑ Cf. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Letters to German Publishers , ed. by Rudolf Elvers , Berlin 1968, p. XXIII ( digitized version )
  7. ^ "Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy House" fully rented and occupied ( memento from November 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), fondshaus-immobilien.de, accessed online on November 4, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1936
Place of death Oxford