Julius Bensheimer

Julius Bensheimer (born January 22, 1850 in Mannheim ; † June 13, 1917 there ) was a German publisher .

Life

Bensheimer was the son of the bookseller and publisher Jakob Bensheimer (1807–1863) and his wife Sara (1821–1888). After attending the Grand Ducal Lyceum , he took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 . He received his training in the Strasbourg branch of his father's publishing house. Together with his brothers Sigmund and Albert, he ran the Bensheimer publishing house, which became an important publishing house for scientific and legal literature during the German Empire. In 1906 Julius Bensheimer took over the entire management of the publishing house. The publishing house published the Baden judicial laws from 1880 and a collection of German laws from 1908, which had grown to 128 volumes by 1927. In addition, educational writings and school books as well as the dialect poems by Hans Glückstein were published. But Bensheimer was particularly prominent as the editor of the consciously democratically oriented " Neue Badische Landeszeitung ".

As a member of the Progressive People's Party, Bensheimer was a member of the Mannheim Citizens' Committee and had been a member of the city council since 1912. He was chairman of the Mannheim branch of the German newspaper publishers association and co-founder, for several years chairman of the August Lamey Lodge and member of the Mannheim Synagogue Council.

Bensheimer had been married to the women's rights activist Alice Bensheimer since 1885.The couple had a son, Ernst J. Bensheimer, a doctor of law, who died in 1923.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mannheim Death Register, 1917, Volume III, Entry No. 1534

literature

• Karl Otto Watzinger: History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945 with 52 biographies. , 2nd edition, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1984 (publications of the Mannheim City Archives; 12).
• Paulina Brunner: Julius (1850–1917) and Alice Bensheimer (1864–1935) - promoters of the emacipation of Jews and women . In: Wilhelm Kreutz / Volker von Offenburg (eds.): Jewish students of the United Grand Ducal Lyceum - Karl-Friedrich Gymnasium Mannheim, Mannheim: Wellhöfer 2014 (series of publications by the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim in cooperation with the Mannheim City Archives - Institute for Urban History; 2), ISBN 978-3-95428-153-4 , pp. 51-62.