Dagobert Friedlaender

Dagobert Friedlaender (born February 19, 1826 in Kolmar , Province of Posen , † 1904 in Villa Breitenstein near Ermatingen , Switzerland ) was a German banker.

Life

Friedlaender came from a simple Jewish family and was a bookseller in Wollstein between 1846 and 1857 . He later founded the Friedlaender Brothers banking house in Bromberg together with his brother Wilhelm, who had made money in California . This quickly gained in importance. In Bromberg Friedlaender belonged to the respected economic bourgeoisie. He founded numerous charities and was elected to the honorary city council and the provincial parliament. At the suggestion of the city, he was appointed to the Prussian mansion for life in 1874 . He was one of two Jewish members of the house.

Friedlaender thus became the target of the growing anti-Semitic movement in the German Empire of the 1880s. The attacks culminated in disciplinary proceedings against him. Outraged by these allegations and also as a result of personal threats, Friedlaender resigned his honorary offices in the city and also the manor house. He first moved to Frankfurt am Main , where he wrote a description of the case and had it printed. There he worked again as a banker and later moved to Switzerland.

One son was the lawyer Max Friedlaender .

literature

• Waldemar Friedlaender: Dagobert Friedlaender, 1826-1904: a life picture . Munich: Knorr & Hirth, 1908
• Dagobert Friedländer , in: Ernest Hamburger : Jews in public life in Germany: members of the government, civil servants and parliamentarians in the monarchical era. 1848-1918 . Tübingen: Mohr, 1968, p. 281

Web links

• Dagobert Friedlaender , at Jewish Encyclopedia
• The memoirs of the lawyer Max Friedlaender at the Federal Bar Association