Franz Hirschler

Franz Hirschler (born March 7, 1881 in Mannheim , † June 16, 1956 in Buenos Aires ) was a German lawyer and local politician.

Life

Hirsch was born as the son of the businessman Aron Hirsch (1840–1915) and his wife Cäcilie, b. Lakisch (1841–1887), born in Mannheim, where he also attended the Grand Ducal Gymnasium . After graduating from secondary school in 1897, he first did a banking apprenticeship at the Mannheim banking house Hohenemser, which he soon broke off and returned to high school. Immediately after graduating from high school, Hirschler studied law in Heidelberg , Lausanne , Munich and Erlangen , where he received his doctorate in 1905. From 1905 to 1907 he completed his legal clerkship in Mannheim. In 1907 he joined the law firm of the Reichstag member Ludwig Frank . Hirschler married Berta Freund in 1911, and twin sons were born a year later. After Ludwig Frank's untimely death as a soldier in World War I, Hirschler took over the firm. After the end of the war, Hirschler was elected to the Mannheim workers' and soldiers' council, and in 1919 to the Mannheim citizens' committee for the SPD. In 1927 he took over the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group. In his local political work he was particularly committed to the Mannheim National Theater . Many members of the National Theater and artists, but also prominent politicians, such as the Prussian interior minister Carl Severing and the Italian socialist leader Pietro Nenni, were guests in Hirschler's house at Charlottenstrasse 17 in Mannheim . In 1928, Hirschler also proposed the mayor of Kiel, Hermann Heimerich , to his parliamentary group as Lord Mayor, who was elected on January 30, 1828.

Hirschler publicly promoted the SPD in election campaign speeches and, as a lawyer, also represented Social Democrats and trade union members in trials against NSDAP members, which resulted in the particular hatred of the National Socialists. On March 10, 1933, he fled via Saarbrücken to Paris , where he worked as a legal advisor and in refugee organizations. He was co-founder and chairman of the "Association of German Lawyers Who Emigrated to France". After the German invasion of France, Hirschler was first interned in a camp in Bordeaux . Released after a month, he managed to flee to Argentina , where his two sons had lived since 1937. Hirschler died in 1956, one year after his wife. Both are buried in an English cemetery in Buenos Aires.

Fonts

• The offense of default of creditors according to common law and the civil code , Mannheim: Haas 1906 (Diss. Erlangen 1906).

literature

• Karl Otto Watzinger : History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945 , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2nd ed. 1987, pp. 105-106.
• Annika Schumacher: Dr. Franz Hirschler (1881–1956) - lawyer and committed social democrat . In: Wilhelm Kreuz, Volker von Offenberg (ed.): Jewish students of the United Grand Ducal Lyceum - Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim. Portraits from two decades, Mannheim 2014 (series of publications by the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim in cooperation with the Mannheim City Archives - Institute for Urban History; 2), ISBN 978-3-95428-153-4 , pp. 157–166.
• Hirschler, Franz , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economics, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 303
• Hirschler, Franz , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 158
• Andrea Hoffend : Hirschler, Franz , in: Baden-Württembergische Biographien . Volume 4, 2007, pp. 151f. ( Text also at leo-bw )