Hermann Cohn (politician)

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Hermann Cohn (born October 28, 1869 in Dessau , † January 24, 1933 in Dessau) was a German lawyer and politician ( FVp , FVP , DDP ).

Life and work

Cohn was born into a Jewish family in Dessau. After graduation, he began studying the law, which he in 1897 with the promotion of Dr. jur. finished. He then worked as a lawyer and notary in Dessau. He belonged to the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith , was a member of its main board from 1908 and chairman of the Jewish community in Dessau from 1921. He published a. a. in the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums and appeared many times as a speaker in the spirit of liberal German Jewry and the confrontation with anti-Semitism . The grave is located in the Israelite cemetery in Dessau.

politics

Cohn had been a city ​​councilor in Dessau from 1902 and from 1912 to 1918 chairman of the city council assembly. From 1902 he was a member of the Anhalt State Parliament. He was initially a member of the left-wing liberal Liberal People's Party (FVp), later switched to the Progressive People's Party (FVP). After the November Revolution he joined the German Democratic Party (DDP). In 1919 Cohn was a member of the Constituent State Assembly of the Free State of Anhalt and was elected to the State Parliament of the Free State of Anhalt in 1920, to which he belonged until 1924. From 1918 to 1922 he was State Councilor of the Free State of Anhalt.

Fonts

  • Palestine. A travel report . Berlin 1927.

literature

  • Bernd G. Ulbrich : Hermann Cohn (1869-1933). Anhalt state politician and German Jew . Moses Mendelssohn Society, Dessau 2010.
  • Bernd G. Ulbrich: The Anhalt state politician and liberal Jew Hermann Cohn (1869–1933) . in: Dessau Calendar 2019. Dessau 2019, ISSN  0420-1264 .
  • Cohn, Hermann , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 59

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personal data
SURNAME Cohn, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (FVp, FVP, DDP)
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1933
Place of death Dessau