Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim

Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim (born July 20, 1819 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 29, 1880 in Berlin ) was a German liberal , free trader , lawyer , international lawyer , publicist and philosopher .

Live and act

Oppenheim came from the Jewish Oppenheim banking family from Frankfurt . He studied in Göttingen , Heidelberg and Berlin law . A habilitation in Berlin failed because of his Jewish origin. In 1841 he became a private lecturer in political science and international law in Heidelberg.

In the mid-1840s he turned to political journalism. In 1848 he found himself on the radical democratic wing of the revolution ; he was co-editor of the magazine Die Reform . In 1861 Oppenheim joined the Progress Party and from that year was editor of the German Yearbooks for Politics and Literature , which were soon banned.

From the beginning of the 1860s he was at the Congress of German Economists . The progress liberal was regarded as a "staunch free trader" and an excellent economist. Later he also turned to socio-political issues such as poor relief and homeland law.

Out of the need to pursue practical politics, he joined the National Liberals in 1866 . Oppenheim supported Otto von Bismarck's course in unifying the nation.

In 1869 he was defeated by Wilhelm Buff in the replacement election for the Reichstag of the North German Confederation in an Upper Hessian constituency. Oppenheim's supporters distributed a brochure in which, among other things, the accusation was raised that anti-Semitic resentments had been served in the election campaign .

In 1874 he was elected to the Reichstag . In 1880 he joined the secessionists because of Bismarck's protective tariff policy .

In his philosophical work, he dealt primarily with the parliamentary system and the service of the representatives of the people for the common good instead of devotion to particular interests . Oppenheim also coined the term “ catheter socialism” .

Fonts

Philosophy of Law and Society. 1847. (Ed. And with an appendix by Hermann Klenner, Freiburg / Berlin 2007)
Our ideals and disappointments in France and England. In: Democratic Studies. 1860.
The cathedral socialism. Berlin 1872.
From the failed tax exemption ; On the history of the stock market fraud ; About party formations. A review. all three In: The present. Volume 1, 1872.
About economic congresses ; Flower picking at the Eisenach social conference ; Tax issues. all three In: The present. Volume 2, 1872.
The truth about the trade unions. In: The present. Volume 3, 1873.
The freedom of trade and the employment contract. German Folk Writings, Volume 5, Breslau 1879.

literature

Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 120 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
Karl Wippermann : Oppenheim, Heinrich Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 396-399.
Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim , in: Ernest Hamburger : Jews in public life in Germany: members of government, officials and parliamentarians in the monarchical era. 1848-1918 . Tübingen: Mohr, 1968, p. 267ff.

Web links

Literature by and about Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim in the German Digital Library
Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim in the database of members of the Reichstag
The bourgeoisie of the Jews. Essay. (PDF; 194 kB) In HBO, studies of domestic politics. Dedicated to Bettina von Arnim with deepest admiration. 1842, pp. 86-95. (Full text)

Individual evidence

↑ The Little Encyclopedia. Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich 1950, Volume 2, p. 288.
^ The Reichstag election in Upper Hesse: A contribution to the natural history of small states, Stuttgart 1869 ( [1] )
^ First in an anonymous article by Oppenheim in the National-Zeitung of December 7, 1871, printed in: Collection of sources for the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , Section I: From the time when the Empire was founded to the Imperial Social Message (1867–1881) , 8. Volume: Basic questions of social policy in public discussion: Churches, parties, clubs and associations , edited by Ralf Stremmel, Florian Tennstedt and Gisela Fleckenstein, Darmstadt 2006, No. 31.

personal data
SURNAME	Oppenheim, Heinrich Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German free trader, lawyer, international lawyer, publicist and philosopher and politician (DFP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	July 20, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	March 29, 1880
Place of death	Berlin

[1] The Little Encyclopedia. Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich 1950, Volume 2, p. 288.

[2] The Reichstag election in Upper Hesse: A contribution to the natural history of small states, Stuttgart 1869 ( [1] )

[3] First in an anonymous article by Oppenheim in the National-Zeitung of December 7, 1871, printed in: Collection of sources for the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , Section I: From the time when the Empire was founded to the Imperial Social Message (1867–1881) , 8. Volume: Basic questions of social policy in public discussion: Churches, parties, clubs and associations , edited by Ralf Stremmel, Florian Tennstedt and Gisela Fleckenstein, Darmstadt 2006, No. 31.