Alexander Lifschütz

Alexander Lifschütz (born October 3, 1890 in Berlin , † April 8, 1969 in Bremen ) was a German lawyer, legal philosophical thinker and Senator from Bremen .

biography

Lifschützen's parents came from Pinsk in Belarus . The family lived in Bremen since 1904. The father Isaac Lifschütz was a chemist and invented Eucerit in 1900 , which became the ointment base for the world bestsellers Nivea and Eucerin . Alexander Lifschütz completed his law studies in Göttingen and Munich . He received his doctorate as Dr. jur. and was in Bremen since 1916 as a lawyer and later as a notaryactive and before 1933 was one of the most nationally and internationally respected lawyers in Germany, whose advice was sought and whose brilliant arguments were carefully studied by specialist colleagues. For many years he was a house attorney and legal advisor of many respected companies and associations, legal representative of numerous shipping companies and shipyards and had international mandates from cotton exporters, banks and insurance companies. The Reich government entrusted him with various special tasks and appointed him to the commission for the creation of a new company law.

In 1933 he lost his license as a Jew - although he was now Protestant and a member of the parish council of the Friedenskirchengemeinde - under the law on admission to the bar and in 1934 emigrated to the Netherlands , where he worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam .

After the Second World War he returned to Bremen and was Senator for Political Liberation from 1947 to 1949 . He was thus responsible for the denazification process , the results of which were criticized as unjust by the right-wing German party (DP) through the parliamentarian Herbert Schneider , but also by the CDU through Ernst Müller-Hermann . On the other hand, the American “denazification officer” Joseph Napoli described the proceedings as a “failure”, according to which the bureaucracy would be ruled by the same forces “as in the Nazi years”. Mayor Wilhelm Kaisen clearly distanced himself from both views.

Lifschütz was President of the State Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from January 18, 1956 until his death . During this time, his behavior contributed to the later amendment of the Federal Constitutional Court Act to the effect that from now on minor opinions could be made public.

Honors

The Alexander Lifschütz Street in the Bremen district Obervieland was named in 2001 after him.

Works

• Concerns about the law . Carl Heymanns Verlag, Berlin / Cologne 1953

See also

• List of Bremen Senators
• 1946–1948: Senate Kaisen II , 1948–1951: Senate Kaisen III

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Alexander Lifschütz in the catalog of the German National Library