Felix Lewald

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Felix Lewald (born November 12, 1855 in Berlin ; † October 11, 1914 there ) was a German administrative lawyer .

Live and act

After visiting the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin , he studied only natural , then law and political science at the universities of Berlin , Heidelberg , Göttingen and Strasbourg , and received his doctorate for Dr. jur. Afterwards he was a trainee lawyer , from 1886 a court assessor in the Ministry of Justice.

In 1890 he began his career in the Prussian civil service as a government assessor with the royal government in Posen . In 1891 he became a Councilor appointed. Part-time he worked as State Commissioner for Disability and Old Age Insurance and Second Director of the Rentenbank in Poznan. He was appointed to the Ministry of Finance in 1894 to participate in Miguel's tax reform . From 1896 he was named Secret Finance Council, from 1900 Real Secret Finance Council and Lecturing Council. Most recently he was President of the Royal General Lottery Board. As an author, he has published several articles on constitutional issues in specialist journals. He was the nephew of the writer and women's rights activist Fanny Lewald .

In 1896 he married the writer and women's rights activist Emmi Lewald geb. Jansen, daughter of the Oldenburg State Minister Günther Jansen. She wrote numerous novels, short stories, travel pictures and sketches as well as poems.

tomb

Felix Lewald died in Berlin in 1914 at the age of 58 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, Lewald's remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin. His remarkable grave monument is also located there today.

literature

  • Franz Neubert (Ed.): German Contemporary Lexicon. Leipzig 1905, pp. 868-869.
  • Ruth Steinberg-Groenhof: The tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice. To the grave of Emmi and Felix Lewald in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf. In: Kulturland Oldenburg. Journal of the Oldenburg landscape. No. 1 (2011) = No. 47, pp. 30-33.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 305, 473.
personal data
SURNAME Lewald, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1914
Place of death Berlin