Anton Lindeck

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Lindeck's grave in Mannheim

Anton Lindeck (born August 4, 1871 in Mannheim ; † May 17, 1956 in Bad Dürkheim ) was an important German lawyer during the Weimar period and a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council .

family

Lindeck came from a musically inclined reform Jewish family. The grandfather Benedikt Levi was a rabbi in Giessen, the father Wilhelm was a trained singer and had changed the surname from Levi to Lindeck as authorized signatory of the Ladenburg bank in Mannheim . He became known through his correspondence, published by the Mannheim City Archives , with the composer Johannes Brahms , whose assets he managed. Around 1905 Wilhelm Lindeck became bank director of the Süddeutsche Disconto-Gesellschaft, a holding company of the Ladenburg bank. His brother Hermann Levi was a well-known pianist and conductor in the 19th century. Wilhelm Lindeck converted to the Catholic faith and has been a member of the Corps Starkenburgia in Giessen since his student days .

biography

Even as a student was Anton Lindeck member of the student connection Suevia in Mannheim. After graduating from high school, he did his one year with the field artillery regiment in Koblenz. He then studied law in Göttingen, Berlin, Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg. He was active in the Corps Hannovera in Göttingen and fought 23 courses during his studies . As a student in Freiburg, he became known through his controversy with the fraternity member Max Weber .

After the assessor examination he became a lawyer in Mannheim in 1900 and ran a joint law firm with the national liberal party leader and Reichstag member Ernst Bassermann and the later Hessian Prime Minister Karl Geiler . This partnership existed until Bassermann's death in 1917. During the First World War he was with an artillery unit as a lieutenant colonel on the western front. Professionally, Lindeck was a proven specialist in the field of inland shipping law . In the area of ​​inland navigation he was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council for the entire duration of its existence from 1919 to 1933, which had the right to introduce bills with a social or economic background and fundamental importance to the Reichstag . He was deputy chairman and, as successor to Max Hachenburg, from 1928 to 1933 and then again from 1946 to 1947 chairman of the Mannheim Bar Association; Florian Waldeck was his successor . In addition, after 1945 he was the chairman of the Association of Particle Skippers.

From 1933 until the end of the Second World War in 1945, Lindeck was subject to the massive restrictions of the law on admission to the legal profession, despite front-line soldiers' privilege . After the reconstitution and the re-admission of his Corps Hannovera by the university, Lindeck was awarded honorary membership in 1954.

As far as is known, the estate of the Lindeck family has been in the Mannheim City Archives - Institute for City History - under the name Anna Lindeck Estate since 2004 . One of his three daughters married the lawyer and Goerdeler confidante Gotthilf Bronisch and emigrated with him to New York. Lindeck's grave is in the main cemetery in Mannheim .

Publications

  • Anton Lindeck: Inland navigation law. Verl. Die Rheinschiffahrt, Mannheim 1954
  • Anton Lindeck: Ernst Bassermann's professional activity.

Awards

  • Federal Cross of Merit (February 17, 1954)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brahms, Johannes: Correspondence with the Mannheim bank authorized signatory Wilhelm Lindeck 1872-1882 , arr. by Michael Martin (special publication of the Mannheim City Archives No. 6). Heidelberg 1983
  2. ^ Imogen Fellinger:  Hermann Levi. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 396 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 57/232
  4. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 70/488
  5. ↑ Lindeck: Memoirs Part II: The Göttingen Time ; Max Weber Complete Edition . Volume 4. 2nd half volume. Agricultural worker question, nation state and national economic policy. Writings and speeches 1892-1899, JCBMohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1993, p. 575 ff., Die Couleurschicksale des Fürsten Bismarck (digitized version )
  6. ^ By judgment of the Hanover Administrative Court of July 8, 1954
personal data
SURNAME Lindeck, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1956
Place of death Bad Dürkheim