Eugen Fuchs (lawyer)

Eugen Fuchs (born February 6, 1856 in Koschentin , Upper Silesia , † December 22, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer . He came out particularly as a connoisseur in the field of property law .

Life

Fuchs attended the Jewish elementary school until he was twelve and then went to the Friedrichsgymnasium in Breslau. From 1874 to 1877 he studied law, in 1883 he received his doctorate in Leipzig. From 1896 to 1911 he was a board member of the Berlin Bar Association, from 1905 to 1933 a board member of the Bar Association. In 1906, Fuchs was the only Jew to be appointed to the large examination board for assessor exams. From 1915 he was editor of the legal weekly .

He was also (1893) co-founder and leader of the CV and, as its chairman (1917-1919), tried to deepen the idea of ​​a synthesis of Germanness and Judaism . From this his principled anti-Zionism followed . Fuchs also resolutely fought anti-Semitism and publicly dealt with Werner Sombart and Heinrich von Treitschke .

tomb

His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Fonts (selection)

• The essence of thingness. A contribution to general legal theory and to the criticism of the draft of a civil code for the German Reich. Heymanns, Berlin 1888.
• Land register law. Commentary on the land register norms of the civil code and the land register order. 2 volumes (Vol. 1: Material Land Register Law. Vol. 2: Formal Land Register Law. ). Heine, Berlin 1902-1908.
• "The Future of the Jews". A lecture on Werner Sombart's writing. Publishing house of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, Berlin 1912.
• Basic concepts of property law. Moeser, Berlin 1917.
• About Germanness and Judaism. Collected speeches and essays. (1894-1919). Edited by Leo Hirschfeld. Kauffmann, Frankfurt am Main 1919, ( digitized ).

literature

• Fuchs, Eugene. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 8: Frie – Gers. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-22688-8 , pp. 224-228.
• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. 1925 ff. Volume VI.
• S. 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. 226.