Carl Laser Ladewig

Carl Laser Ladewig (born April 16, 1855 in Crivitz ; † June 30, 1926 in Baden-Baden ) was a Berlin city councilor , judiciary , notary and lawyer .

Life

origin

Carl Laser Ladewig was born in the Mecklenburg town of Crivitz in 1855 as the second son of the long-established Jewish merchant family Ladewig .

Practice as a lawyer

He spent Ladewig's childhood and early youth in Crivitz and later also attended a grammar school in Schwerin . He then decided to study law and was enrolled at the universities in Heidelberg , Leipzig and Berlin . In 1882 he was admitted to the bar at the Berlin District Court I and established himself as an independent lawyer in Berlin.

In 1901 Carl was given the honorary title of legal advisor due to his work as a lawyer , and in 1902 was additionally appointed notary. His clients included the well-known Belgian architect and designer Henry van de Velde . Ladewig acted as legal advisor for several years and later, together with van den Veldes' business partner, Eberhard von Bodenhausen , was significantly involved in the liquidation and sale of his client's company, "Van de Velde GmbH", which was in financial difficulties.

Political work

Shortly after settling in Berlin, Carl began to be politically active. He was initially a supporter of the German Progressive Party , later the German Freedom Party through a merger . On April 13, 1893, he entered the city ​​parliament of Berlin as a member of the parliamentary group of the Left and as a city councilor elected in constituency 2 .

As part of his parliamentary work, he was a member of the committee for the preliminary examination of the validity of city council elections, the Borstel Foundation for the blind and blind, the servants' reward deputation, the deputation for art purposes, the Otto Foundation, the deputation for the interior decoration of the town hall , the board of trustees of the city ​​library and the city public libraries and reading halls and the association assembly of Greater Berlin .

For reasons of age, he retired in the course of 1917 before finally ending his parliamentary work in September 1918. As a city councilor, he helped shape the political fortunes of Wilhelminian-style Berlin for more than 25 years .

family

On July 8, 1884, Ladewig married Gertrud Cohn († 1945), a daughter of the Berlin-based Jewish inventor Ephraim Cohn, in Berlin . From this marriage two sons were born:

Hans Carl Ladewig (* 1886; † 1952), the older son, initially took over the office of his father, but was then prevented from continuing his legal and notarial work due to the Aryan paragraph of the National Socialists . Hans defended himself against this with all legal means and initially obtained his re-approval. Ultimately, however, his license was withdrawn personally in 1936 by the later Nazi judge Roland Freisler . Together with his wife Adelheid Gertrud geb. Meuschel then managed to escape via Switzerland and Italy to the USA .

Carl's second son Fritz Ladewig (* 1888; † before January 27, 1945) and his wife Lilly b. Lehmann, who both had moved to the Netherlands before the Second World War , were deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and later pronounced dead.

The marriages of both sons remained childless.

literature

• Jürgen Gramenz: Ladewig: Documentation of a Jewish family association from Mecklenburg. Cardamina Verlag Susanne Breuel, Plaidt 2013, ISBN 978-3-86424-086-7 , pp. 152-162.