Ernst Cahn

Cahn graduated from high school in Bayreuth, 1894

Ernst Cahn (born November 2, 1875 in Bayreuth ; died October 24, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer who taught at the Frankfurt Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences and the Foundation University in Frankfurt .

Life

Cahn was born to Jewish parents. After the death of his father, he converted to Christianity. After graduating from the Humanist Gymnasium in Bayreuth in 1894 , he studied law and economics at the University of Berlin and the University of Munich . In 1898 he passed the first state examination in law and obtained his doctorate , followed by the second state examination in 1901 .

From 1898 to 1901 he was a trainee lawyer in Bayreuth, from 1902 to 1916 employee and later head of the Social Museum, which had founded the Institute for the Common Good . In 1904 he received a teaching position for social security and public trade law at the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in Frankfurt. After his habilitation in 1909 he became a private lecturer for criminal law , administrative law and politics at the academy , then in 1914 a lecturer at the newly established foundation university in Frankfurt. From 1916 he was Magistrats Syndikus in Frankfurt and professor for political theory and administrative law, in 1922 senior magistrate of the city administration.

In 1933, as a Jew, Cahn was forced to retire and retired. He continued to live in Frankfurt during the National Socialist era .

Ekkehard Kaufmann wrote in a foreword to Cahn's posthumously published work The Law of Inland Fisheries in the German Cultural Area from the Beginnings to the End of the 18th Century . :

“The years after 1933 brought a time of persecution, privation and loneliness for him, the born Jew who had become a Christian from a young age. He was not allowed to continue the work that he had loved. "

In 1945 he was reinstated as senior magistrate and professor. In the autumn of 1945, however, he retired and was henceforth involved in the association for popular education and in tuberculosis welfare .

literature

• Renate Heuer , Siegbert Wolf (ed.): The Jews of the Frankfurt University . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-593-35502-7 , p. 55 ff .
• Cahn, Ernst. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 4: Brech-Carle. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-22684-5 , pp. 378-384.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Cahn in the catalog of the German National Library