Heinrich Rheinstrom

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Heinrich Rheinstrom , later Henry Rheinstrom (born April 15, 1884 in Kaiserslautern , † December 30, 1960 in New York City ), was a German-American lawyer .

Life

Heinrich Rheinstrom was the son of the print shop owner Simon Rheinstrom and Lina Straus. He married Clarisse Niedermeier in 1912 and they had a daughter. Rheinstrom studied law and political science in Würzburg, Munich and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1906 with the dissertation The canals of Suez and Panama in Würzburg. He was a soldier in World War I and received several awards as an officer.

After the second state examination in 1909, he ran a law firm for commercial and tax law in Munich and wrote numerous publications in these areas. From 1916 onwards, Rheinstrom was honorary professor at the TH Munich . Rheinstrom was a member of the supervisory board of industrial companies and railway companies in Germany and abroad. From 1923 to 1926 he was a member of the board of the Munich Jewish Community .

After his office was looted by SA men in March 1933, he did not return from a trip abroad. On April 14, 1937, he and his family were expatriated from the German Reich.

Until 1939 he ran a law firm in Paris and London together with Frederick Alexander Mann and Alfred Werner. From 1936 to 1939 he taught international law at the Free German University in Paris.

In 1939 he fled with the family to the USA , where he worked in New York City as a business lawyer and member of the supervisory board of American industrial companies. He became a member of the Association of the Bar of City of New York. He also became a member of the Academy of Political Science , the International Law Association (London) and the Rotarians .

Together with Konrad Wolff, he published the work L'influence du régime national-socialiste sur le droit privé allemand (The Influence of the National Socialist Regime on German Private Law) in 1939 , which was first translated into German in 2015.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Suez and Panama Canal: A Study of International Law . Leipzig: R. Noske, 1906. Dissertation Würzburg 1906
  • with Ludwig Quidde : How do I submit my tax return? A guide for the taxpayer . Munich: Beck, 1912
  • Law on a one-off extraordinary military contribution of July 3, 1913 . 1914
  • Property Tax Act of July 3, 1913 . 1916
  • Implementing provisions of November 30, 1916 for the Property Tax Act of July 3, 1913 and the Act of November 9, 1916 . 1917
  • Law on a sales stamp of June 26, 1916 . 1917
  • Gold mark balances . 1924
  • The new company law. Commentary on the first part of the ordinance of the Reich President of September 19, 1931 on company law and banking supervision . 1932
  • The holding company under the laws of the Principality of Monaco . 1936
  • The position of the international channels under international law . 1937
  • The holding company under the laws of the Tangier International Zone, the Republic of Panama and the British Dominion Canada . 1939
  • L'influence du régime national-socialiste sur le droit privé allemand . 1939
    • The Influence of the National Socialist Regime on German Private Law . Translation by Jan Gehlsen. Berlin: BWV, 2015
  • Diary 1914 to 1926 , manuscript at Center for Jewish History (CJH)

literature

  • Reinhard Weber, The fate of Jewish lawyers in Bavaria after 1933 , Munich 2006.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol.1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 601
  • Rheinstrom, Heinrich , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 309

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personal data
SURNAME Rheinstrom, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rheinstrom, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1960
Place of death New York City