Emil Lehmann (politician)

Emil Lehmann

Emil Lehmann (born February 2, 1829 in Dresden , † February 25, 1898 ibid ) was a German lawyer , writer and politician ( German Progressive Party ).

Life

Emil Lehmann's grave in the New Jewish Cemetery in Dresden

Emil Lehmann was born the son of the businessman Bonnier Lehmann (* 1801) in Dresden. First he attended the Israelite Community School, then from 1842 to 1848 the Kreuzschule in Dresden. Then studied Emil Lehmann at the University of Leipzig from 1848 to 1851 Jura . During his studies in 1848 he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity Germania . In the meantime employed as a journalist for the Saxon village newspaper , Lehmann worked as a lawyer from 1863 and later also as a notary . He was married to his cousin Hermione, nee Salomon.

Lehmann was one of the most important Jewish people in Dresden , u. a. he was chairman of the Jewish community since 1869. In 1893 he was one of the co-founders of the " Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith ". He fought against German anti-Semitism and took the view that Judaism and German-national attitudes united would produce the ideal German Jew. At the same time, he campaigned for the liberalization of Orthodox Judaism by highlighting humanism and tolerance as the guiding aspects of German-Jewish coexistence.

From 1865 to 1883 Emil Lehmann was, with a few interruptions, the city councilor of Dresden, during which time he held the post of 1st vice chairman from 1879 to 1883. His re-election to the city council failed in 1883 due to the strong anti-Semitic trend in the city. From 1875 to 1881 Lehmann represented the 5th Dresden constituency in the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament . He died in Dresden in 1898 and was buried in the New Jewish Cemetery there.

One of his ancestors was the founder of the Israelite Religious Community in Dresden, Issachar Berend Lehmann , who, as “authorized representative” of the Dresden Jews in 1733 , enforced the exemption of Jewish children from personal customs duties with Augustus the Strong .

Works

• Collected Writings . Edited by his children. Weiske, Dresden 1909
• Hear Israel . Appeal to the German co-religionists. Wolff, Dresden 1869
• To the synod . A call to the Israelite communities. Wroclaw 1871
• Lessing in its meaning for the Jews . Salomon, Dresden 1879
• The Jews now and then . Contribution to the solution of the Jewish question. Pierson, Dresden 1887
• The German Jewish Confession . Moedebeck, Berlin 1894

literature

• Adolf Brüll :  Lehmann, Emil . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 620-622.
• Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 418.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 15-17.
• Toni Hanel: On the construction of the 'council loyal' city councilor - Emil Lehmann's relationship with the oppositional city councilors in November 1883 . In: Medaon 11 (2017), 20 ( online ).
• Franz Menges:  Lehmann, Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 69 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Bernd Strobach: Three times Lehmann after Berend Lehmann. Marcus, Emil and Jonas Lehmann. Contrary Jewish attitudes in the 19th century . (pdf ~ 114kB). In: medaon.de. Magazine for Jewish life in research and education.

Web links

• Gunda Ulbricht: Emil Lehmann (1829–1898) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament
2. ↑ Alphonse Levy: Foreword to Emil Lehmann: Gesammelte Schriften . Dresden 1909.