Julius Benfey
Julius Benfey (born February 10, 1836 in Göttingen , † March 23, 1900 in Hanover ) was a German journalist , business lawyer and bank director.
Life
Julius Benfey was the son of the Göttingen banker Philipp Benfey and was born in the Prinzenhaus in Göttingen, in which the three English princes from July 10, 1786, all sons of the British King and Hanoverian Elector Georg III. , had resided in Göttingen during their joint studies.
After attending school in Seesen and Göttingen , he began studying law at the University of Heidelberg in 1856 , where he became the Renonce of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg . At Easter 1857 he moved to the University of Göttingen and became a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . Since he was denied access to civil service in the Kingdom of Hanover because of his Jewish faith , he became a lawyer and notary in Hanover after the assessor exam (1864). As a part-time job, he worked as a journalist and reported for the newspaper for Northern Germany from the meetings of the Second Chamber of the State Assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover . In 1872 he joined the board of directors of Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank AG (today's Berlin Hyp ).
Benfey was politically active as a national liberal . As a supporter of the National Liberal Party , he founded the National Liberal Association for Hanover in 1873.
Benfey worked on a voluntary basis for the German Red Cross in Hanover and in the entire province of Hanover as well as on the board of the German fleet association of the province of Hanover. In addition, he was active on the board of the Jewish community in Hanover from 1867 and was its head for 26 years. Benfey was a leader in numerous subordinate social institutions of the Jewish community in Hanover.
Benfey was married and had two sons and four daughters. His son Philipp Benfey (1865–1928) became known as a lawyer and public defender of Fritz Haarmann .
According to the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden for the year 1891, Benfey was the owner and landlord of the building at Hildesheimer Straße 1 , which the architects Otto Bollweg had built as a residential and commercial building in cooperation with Ernst Grelle the previous year .
Honors
- Prussian Order of the Crown (4th class)
- 1898 Appointment to the judiciary
- 1898 Red Cross medals (2nd and 3rd class)
See also
literature
- Obituary under correspondence in In the German Empire . Journal of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith. , VI. Volume (1900), Issue 4, pp. 208/209 ( digitized at www.compactmemory.de )
- Jacob Toury : The political orientations of the Jews in Germany , Mohr Siebeck, 1966, p. 111
- Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen. Volume 1, 1809-1899, Göttingen 2002, No. 624
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Benfey, (1) Julius. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 48, limited preview in the Google book search
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Benfey, (1) Julius. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 48; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ Compare Section I, p. 201 of the address book as a digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
- ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Bollweg, Otto in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de , last accessed on August 30, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benfey, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German business lawyer and bank director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1900 |
| Place of death | Hanover |