Emil Guggenheimer

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Emil Guggenheimer (born January 21, 1860 in Munich , † June 27, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and industrialist.

Life

The commission and banking business Guggenheimer and Co, founded in 1872 by the brothers Moritz, Eduard and Joseph Guggenheimer, was taken over by the Bayerische Vereinsbank in 1892 . Joseph's son Emil Guggenheimer studied law in Würzburg, Leipzig and Munich and passed the second state examination in 1885. He made a career in the public prosecutor's office and as a judge at the Munich I district court . However, his marriage, which had three children, ended in divorce in 1901. When Guggenheimer dueled with Ludwig Steub, Belgian consul general to the Kingdom of Bavaria , son of the writer of the same name, Ludwig Steub , because of his wife, he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, which he served until his early release in Oberhaus , and in 1903 divorced "on his own." Wish ”from civil service.

Immediately afterwards, Guggenheimer joined the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg as in-house counsel and became a member of the board there in 1907. In Augsburg he became French consul in 1910, so he was able to offer his new wife a comparable title; in 1914 he became a Bavarian councilor of commerce and in 1923 a secret councilor of justice . In 1916 he moved to Berlin for professional reasons .

Guggenheimer was a member of the German delegation to the Versailles peace negotiations . From 1921 on he was Reich Commissioner for the Reconstruction of the Destroyed Territories of Germany after the First World War and in 1921 honorary President of the Reich Return Commission . Guggenheimer was a member of the board of directors of the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie and took a tough stance against the labor movement and the emerging white-collar unions.

Guggenheimer was, although he had converted to Catholicism because of his first marriage to a daughter of the chamber singer Franz Innozenz Nachbaur , a target of the anti-Semitic racial hatred of Hans FK Günther .

Guggenheimer was an important art collector.

literature

  • Wolf Weigand: Emil Guggenheimer. In: Manfred Treml , Wolf Weigand (ed.): History and culture of the Jews in Bavaria. Resumes . Munich: Saur, 1988, pp. 189-194
  • Siegmund Kaznelson (Ed.), Jews in the German Cultural Sector , Berlin 1962
  • John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 262.
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Sylvia Ehrenreich: Dr. Emil Guggenheimer - a Bavarian civil servant at MAN, in: Marita Krauss (Hrsg.) : Die Bayerischen Kommerzienräte - A German business elite from 1880 to 1928, Volk Verlag, Munich 2016, pp. 334–337. ISBN 978-3-86222-216-2

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information based on Wolf Weigand, 1988
  2. ↑ Historical Lexicon of Bavaria: Treaty of Versailles, 1919/20 (pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Guggenheimer, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1925
Place of death Berlin