Eduard Silbermann
Eduard Silbermann ( April 25, 1851 in Kolmsdorf - February 9, 1917 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and the first German public prosecutor of Jewish descent.
Life
Eduard Silbermann grew up from 1854 to 1862 in an Orthodox Jewish family in Bischberg . His father started out as a cloth maker and made his fortune through the textile trade.
Then Eduard Silbermann attended grammar school in Bamberg and was the only one in Bavaria to receive a gold medal for outstanding performance after passing the Abitur. After studying law, he was the first Jew to become a public prosecutor in Germany in 1879 . He worked in Regensburg , Augsburg and Munich, where he became Senate President at the Higher Regional Court .
Works
Eduard Silbermann: Memories 1851–1917 . Munich 1916, manuscript in the Leo Baeck Institute (not evaluated)
literature
- Klaus Guth: Eduard Silbermann (1851-1917) memories of childhood and youth in the Orthodox Jewish rural community of Bischberg near Bamberg. In memory of the 100th anniversary of death . In: Sabine Wüst (ed.): Treasures of the world from a regional historical perspective. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Wolfgang Wüst, St. Ottilien: EOS 2018, ISBN 9783830678908 , pp. 619–630.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Max Kreutzberger: Leo Baeck Institute New York Library and Archive . Catalog, Volume 1, Page 464
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Silbermann, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and first German public prosecutor with Jewish descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolmsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1917 |
| Place of death | Munich |