Felix Loewenthal

Felix Löwenthal ( November 15, 1853 in Schwerin - August 5, 1929 there ) was a German lawyer and parliamentarian.

Life

Felix Löwenthal was the son of a lawyer in Schwerin. He attended the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin until Michaelmas 1872 and then studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Rostock. After graduating, he joined his father's law firm in Schwerin and continued to run it with his colleague John Bonheim (1876–1941) after his father's death.

In Mecklenburg-Schwerin Löwenthal emerged as a liberal politician. In 1918 in Schwerin he was a co-founder of the DDP and its state chairman. Löwenthal was a city councilor in Schwerin and a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1919 he drafted the new state constitution on behalf of Prime Minister Hugo Wendorff and set liberal accents in it. Löwenthal was on the board of the Mecklenburg Association of Cities and his pen came - after the separation of state and religion in 1919 - the negotiated constitution of the new committee for member representation, called the Israelite State Assembly , the Israelite State Community of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , the state-wide umbrella organization of the Jewish communities founded in 1764 Mecklenburg-Schwerins.

From 1882 until his death he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .

Awards

Title Council of Justice

Web links

Literature about Felix Löwenthal in the state bibliography MV

literature

Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6002 .

Individual evidence

^ The Gymnasium Fridericianum zu Schwerin 1553-1903 , Schwerin 1903 (Festschrift for the school anniversary), p. 38
^ Entry in 1875 in the Rostock matriculation portal
^ Entry by John Bonheim in the Rostock matriculation portal; John Bonheim was deported from Berlin to the Lodz ghetto on October 18, 1941 ; February 26, 1942 is given as the date of his death; a stumbling block in Schwerin has been remembering him since 2014 ; John Bonheim's entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims ; State capital supports "stumbling block initiative"
↑ Werner Strecker: Annual report on the year of the association from July 1, 1929 to June 30, 1930: Schwerin, July 1, 1930. In: Year books of the association for Mecklenburg history and antiquity. 94 (1930), pp. 311-318, here p. 311 ( full text )

personal data
SURNAME	Löwenthal, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and parliamentarian
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH	August 5, 1929
Place of death	Schwerin

[1] The Gymnasium Fridericianum zu Schwerin 1553-1903 , Schwerin 1903 (Festschrift for the school anniversary), p. 38

[2] Entry in 1875 in the Rostock matriculation portal

[3] Entry by John Bonheim in the Rostock matriculation portal; John Bonheim was deported from Berlin to the Lodz ghetto on October 18, 1941 ; February 26, 1942 is given as the date of his death; a stumbling block in Schwerin has been remembering him since 2014 ; John Bonheim's entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims ; State capital supports "stumbling block initiative"

[4] Werner Strecker: Annual report on the year of the association from July 1, 1929 to June 30, 1930: Schwerin, July 1, 1930. In: Year books of the association for Mecklenburg history and antiquity. 94 (1930), pp. 311-318, here p. 311 ( full text )