Felix Waldstein

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Felix Waldstein

David Felix Waldstein (born February 6, 1865 in Gnesen , † December 8, 1943 in London ) was a German politician ( Progressive People's Party , DDP ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Gnesen , Waldstein, who was of Jewish faith, studied law and economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1882 to 1885 . After his legal clerkship in Königstein im Taunus and Frankfurt am Main , he settled as a lawyer in Altona in 1890 . In 1901 he was appointed as a notary . For many years he was chairman of the Hamburg and Altona local group in the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith . On November 14, 1935, the first ordinance on the Reich Citizenship Act revoked his notary license due to his Jewish origin. On November 30, 1938, like all Jews, his license to practice as a lawyer was revoked and he was banned from working. In 1939 he emigrated to London .

Waldstein's son Hans (1902–1977) was also a lawyer in Hamburg. He emigrated in 1933, after his license had been withdrawn in April 1933 due to the Civil Service Act , but returned to Germany in 1949 as an employee of the US embassy.

Political party

Waldstein initially belonged to the Liberal Association , which united in 1910 with the Liberal People's Party and the Württemberg Democratic People's Party to form the Progressive People's Party . In 1918 he participated in the founding of the German Democratic Party .

MP

Felix Waldstein was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1908 to 1918 . In the Reichstag election in 1912 , he was elected to the Reichstag of the Empire for the constituency of Schleswig- Eckernförde (until 1918). In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . Then he was again a member of the Reichstag until February 1921 .

literature

  • Felix Waldstein , in: Ernest Hamburger : Jews in public life in Germany: members of the government, civil servants and parliamentarians in monarchical times. 1848-1918 . Mohr, Tübingen 1968, pp. 364-366.
  • Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, Vol. 3). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 401
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 401.
  2. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 90 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250)
personal data
SURNAME Waldstein, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldstein, David Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FVP, DDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Gniezno
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1943
Place of death London