Fischel Arnhem

Fischel Arnheim (born February 23, 1812 in Bayreuth ; died January 31, 1864 in Munich ) was a German politician and lawyer.

Life

Arnheim was the only child of the Jewish merchant Jakob Arnheim (1780–1843) and his wife Jette (née Fischel; 1776–1846). He was to go into his father's business and initially received lessons from private tutors . At the age of seventeen, prepared through self-study, he entered the upper class of the Royal Bavarian College . He then studied law at the universities of Munich and Erlangen . On the latter he received his doctorate on October 23, 1838 and then returned to Bayreuth. There he worked as an accessist first at the regional court and then at the district and city court.

At that time, Jews were still barred from public service . Therefore it was not until 1848 that he received the state appointment as royal advocate in Naila . A short time later he moved to his hometown Bayreuth, where he set up his law firm in Opernstrasse 7.

In 1849 he was elected to the Bavarian Chamber of Representatives for the constituency of Hof - Münchberg , where he was the second Jewish representative after David Morgenstern . As a supporter of the Liberals, his efforts included universal suffrage and the independence of the press . Arnhem was one of the greatest supporters of the dissolution of various Bavarian embassies in 1852.

Arnhem was a member of the Legislative Committee on the Code of Civil Procedure and the Civil Code , where he was a leader in drafting laws. He was instrumental in the lifting of the compulsory registration in 1861, which regulated the approval and above all the number of Jews living in one place. In 1863 he achieved free trade for Jews, which meant extensive legal equality between Jews and Christians in Bavaria .

He was a member of the Bubenreuther Erlangen fraternity . In 1863 he was made the first honorary citizen of the city of Hof , where a street has been named after him since 1991. Fischel Arnheim died in Munich during a session of the state parliament, his grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Bayreuth.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 27.

Web links

• Fischel Arnheim in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Christine Bartholomäus: From Emanuel Osmond to Hilde Marx . In: Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Bayreuth (ed.): Jüdisches Bayreuth . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2010, ISBN 978-3-925361-81-4 , pp. 105 ff .