Levi Heinemann

Levi Heinemann (also: Levy Heinemann ; born 1785 ; died November 3, 1861 in Hanover ) was a royal Westphalian , then a royal British and electoral Hanoverian and finally a royal Hanoverian civil servant and iron factor . He was an elder and head of the Jewish community of Hanover and Hof - banker of Guelph and in particular one of the first persons of the Jewish faith with civil rights in his time royal seat and - later - Lower Saxony capital.

Life

family

Levy Heinemann was the son of Nehemias Levy Heinemann and Betty Levy Heinemann. He married Jeannette Samson Hertz, with whom he had the children Marianne Bresslau and Karl, Bertha and Sophie Heinemann.

Prehistory and career

After a quasi-legal ban on the settlement of Jews for the (old) city of Hanover was last enacted in 1588 , this situation changed for the first time during the so-called " French era ", during the occupation of Hanover by French troops at the beginning of the 19th century Under Marshal Mortier and Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte : On January 27, 1808, Bonaparte decreed freedom of establishment and trade and at the same time equal rights for Jews within the framework of generally applicable regulations. Around that time, alongside David Jaques , Levi Heinemann also dared to take up residence in the old city of Hanover.

After the reestablishment of government power by the Guelphs and the repeal of the Westphalian laws, the "[...] golden age of the Jews" was over for the time being.

One of the longer-term Hanoverian citizens of Jewish faith with the full political rights of Hanover was probably first the steel springs fabrikant Zacharias Cohen suspects in the Hanover on April 20, 1843 Bürgerbuch was entered, although he was still in Calenberger Neustadt lived - which united with Hanover in 1824. The royal iron factor and banker Levy Heinemann, on the other hand, was only entered in the Hanover city register on May 29, 1843, but at that time already lived in the old town of Hanover on Marktstrasse at number 45 . According to a footnote in Selig Gronemann's Genealogical Studies ... the accountant August Altendorf Gronemann verbally informed that Levi Heinemann had received this early permission to settle through the mediation of the Countess von Palten , after which Heinemann had initially been made a royal official and a royal iron factor, in order to circumvent the new legal settlement ban for Jews in Hanover's old town.

Other - wealthy - Jewish new residents of Hanover followed in quick succession to the example of Cohen and Heinemann's branch office, including the banker Adolf Behrend , who was entered in the civil register on September 18, 1843 and who also owned a “[...] representative property at Georgstrasse 18 on the corner of Windmühlenstrasse ”.

But it was not until during the German revolutionary years of the aged - and until then in the sense of a supposed divine right again and still ruling absolutist - King Ernst August proclaimed the "[...] complete freedom of belief and conscience" that the sovereign initially connected also equal political and civil rights for all - male adult - residents of the kingdom.

Levi Heinemann died in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover at the time of King George V , whose court banker Heinemann was acting, in 1861. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery on Oberstrasse in the northern part of Hanover.

literature

Selig Gronemann: Genealogical studies on the old Jewish families of Hanover. On behalf of the management of the charity (Chewra kadischa) of the synagogue community Hanover on the hand of the inscriptions of the old cemetery ... , Vol. 2: Grave inscriptions and memorial words., P. 126; urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30: 1-110826

Remarks

↑ Deviating from this, Helmut Zimmermann names the only two other former "[...] Unterhan (en) Mosaic religion ", identified by their names in the Hanoverian address book from 1812, but converted to the Lutheran faith : The one from Dresden and the one in the Neustädter Hof- und 1805 City Church St. Johannis baptized Negotiant Martin Ludwig Emanuel as well as the leather dealer Karl Heinrich Nathan, son of the court jeweler Moses Levi Nathan, who was baptized three years later. Nathan acquired his old Hanoverian citizenship in 1809, but six years later he lived "[...] again in the Neustadt " - and is said to have been the only new citizen there during the Westphalian period. In contrast, Emanuel was probably no longer among the citizens of Hanover's old town as early as 1815 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Selig Gronemann: Genealogical studies on the old Jewish families of Hanover. On behalf of the management of the charity ( Chewra kadischa ) of the synagogue community Hanover on the hand of the inscriptions of the old cemetery ... , Vol. 1: Genealogy of the families, p. 4, 154; urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30: 1-110833

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Helmut Zimmermann : The Jewish community in Hanover since emancipation , in Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Red.): "Reichskristallnach" in Hanover. An exhibition on the 40th anniversary of November 9, 1938 , accompanying document to the “Reichskristallnacht” exhibition in Hanover in the Hanover Historical Museum from November 7, 1978 to January 21, 1979, ed. from the Historisches Museum Hannover, Hannover 1978, pp. 6-15; here v. a. S. XVII, 7, 8

↑ ^a ^b Abraham Bresslau: Letters from Dannenberg 1835-1839: with an introduction to the family history of the historian Harry Bresslau (1848-1926) and the history of the Jews in Dannenberg . Elementa diplomatica. Ed .: Peter Rück. University library , 2007, ISBN 978-3-8185-0441-0 ( google.at - page 136).

↑ ^a ^b Verena Mühlstein: Helene Schweitzer Bresslau . A life for Lambarene (= Beck'sche Reihe , vol. 1387), 2nd, reviewed edition, Munich: Verlag CH Beck, 2001, ISBN 978-3-406-45927-6 and ISBN 3-406-45927-7 , P. 13; Preview over google books

↑ Klaus Mlynek : Napoleonic Wars. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , S: 459f.

^ Klaus Mlynek: Calenberger Neustadt. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 105f.

↑ Compare the transcription of the entries from the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover in 1849 on the website of the Verein für Computergenealogie

personal data
SURNAME	Heinemann, Levi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heinemann, Levy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Royal Hanoverian iron factor, civil servant, German entrepreneur and banker
DATE OF BIRTH	1785
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1861
Place of death	Hanover

[6] Deviating from this, Helmut Zimmermann names the only two other former "[...] Unterhan (en) Mosaic religion ", identified by their names in the Hanoverian address book from 1812, but converted to the Lutheran faith : The one from Dresden and the one in the Neustädter Hof- und 1805 City Church St. Johannis baptized Negotiant Martin Ludwig Emanuel as well as the leather dealer Karl Heinrich Nathan, son of the court jeweler Moses Levi Nathan, who was baptized three years later. Nathan acquired his old Hanoverian citizenship in 1809, but six years later he lived "[...] again in the Neustadt " - and is said to have been the only new citizen there during the Westphalian period. In contrast, Emanuel was probably no longer among the citizens of Hanover's old town as early as 1815 .

[Genealogie-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Selig Gronemann: Genealogical studies on the old Jewish families of Hanover. On behalf of the management of the charity ( Chewra kadischa ) of the synagogue community Hanover on the hand of the inscriptions of the old cemetery ... , Vol. 1: Genealogy of the families, p. 4, 154; urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30: 1-110833