Gustav Ferdinand Hertz

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Gustav F. Hertz (1904)

Gustav Ferdinand Hertz (born August 2, 1827 as David Gustav Hertz in Hamburg ; † September 8, 1914 there ) was a Hamburg lawyer and senator .

Life and politics

Hertz studied law in Kiel , Bonn , Berlin and Göttingen . During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity in 1847 . He was enrolled as a lawyer in Hamburg on August 20, 1849. There he joined forces with Siegfried Albrecht at the latest in the mid-1850s to form the law firm Dres. Albrecht & G. Hertz . From 1857 to 1861 Hugo Roeloffs was employed by the firm as a clerk. In 1876, Hertz was appointed senior judge at the Hamburg Higher Court. After this court was converted to the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, he continued to work there until he was appointed to the Senate.

From 1859 to 1877 Hertz was a member of the Hamburg parliament . Hertz served as captain of the 5th company of the 5th battalion of the civil military in 1863 and 1864 .

From December 14, 1887 to November 28, 1904, Hertz was a member of the Hamburg Senate and headed the administration of justice there. During his activity as head of the judicial administration, he was mainly concerned with the introduction of the new civil code on January 1, 1900 and the resulting adjustments to the Hamburg administrations.

Faith and family

David Gustav Hertz came from a Jewish family whose ancestors can be traced back to 1720. However, he himself had been a baptized Protestant since 1834 and took the name Gustav Ferdinand Hertz. His parents, who had also converted, were Heinrich David Hertz and Bertha Hertz (née Betty Oppenheim), a daughter of Salomon Oppenheim junior , the founder of the Cologne bank Sal. Oppenheim . From the same Oppenheim family come u. a. also her siblings Abraham , Simon and Dagobert Oppenheim .

Some of Gustav Ferdinand Hertz's descendants appeared as physicists . His son Heinrich Hertz was one of the most famous German physicists and the discoverer of electromagnetic waves . His grandson Gustav Hertz received the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics for the electron impact tests carried out between 1912 and 1913 . His son Carl Helmut Hertz was also an important physicist in the field of sonography .

Others

The collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle includes a picture created in 1906 by Fritz von Uhde that depicts Hertz and his wife. From 1860 to 1862 his father was a member of the Hamburg citizenship at the same time.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 314.
  • Hans-Günther Friday: From Mönckeberg to Hagenbeck . 2nd edition, 1973 Hamburg, ISBN 3-90421-20-5 ; P. 160

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg lawyers from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , pp. 349-350
  2. ^ Wilhelm Heyden : The members of the Hamburg citizenship. 1859-1862 , Hamburg 1909, p. 47
  3. ↑ Jörg Willer: Didactics in the Third Reich using the example of physics. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86888-118-9 , pp. 105–121, here: p. 105.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Heyden : The members of the Hamburg citizenship. 1859-1862 , Hamburg 1909, p. 165
personal data
SURNAME Hertz, Gustav Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertz, David Gustav (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, politician, Member of the Bundestag and Senator
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1914
Place of death Hamburg