Lewis Jacob Marcus

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Lewis Jacob Marcus (born October 15, 1809 in Rehna , † October 7, 1881 in Manchester , England ) was a German lawyer, member of parliament and honorary citizen of Schwerin .

Life

Lewis Jacob Marcus was born on October 15, 1809 as the second child and first son of the businessman Jacob H. Marcus and his wife Juli. Levi was born in the small town of Rehna in Mecklenburg . He studied law at the University of Jena and from May 1831 at the University of Rostock .

Although the States General on the state parliament in Schwerin 1832, the admission of Jews to the legal profession had declined, the Grand Duke approved the establishment of post-doctoral lawyers Lewis Jacob Marcus as a lawyer in Schwerin .

Marcus developed into a determined spokesman for the emancipation and integration of the Jews in Schwerin. In 1836 he founded the association for the promotion of craftsmen among the Israelite co-religionists in Mecklenburg . After the statute for the general ecclesiastical conditions of the Israelite subjects in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin had reconstituted the ducal recognized rural Jewry as the Israelitische Landesgemeinde Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1764 , in 1840 the communities elected him to the Israelite Upper Council (head of the regional community), whose members made him their Chairman determined. Because of his tireless efforts, he was called the Gabriel Riesser von Mecklenburg .

In 1848, Marcus was elected member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives, of which he became vice-president. Then he was set up for the Frankfurt National Assembly in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main as a substitute for the elected Schwerin MP. In the same year he became editor of the Mecklenburg Landtag messenger .

With the transfer of citizenship to the Jewish residents in 1849, Marcus became the first Jewish member of the Mecklenburg parliament (citizen representative) and from 1859 deputy chairman of the citizens' committee (today: city council) of Schwerin. He remained in both until he retired.

Marcus was a member of the first constituent Mecklenburg Chamber of Deputies and a member of the constitutional committee for the elaboration of a "contemporary" constitution for Mecklenburg-Schwerin, which, however, was repealed with the Freienwalder arbitration award .

In August 1863 he took part in the German Congress of Representatives , which met in Frankfurt parallel to the Frankfurt Princes' Day . These three hundred members of state parliaments did not consider the reform act to be extensive enough and committed themselves to the Frankfurt constitution of 1849.

On his retirement on September 8, 1876, the city council of Schwerin granted him honorary citizenship and called him one of the most respected citizens of this city and the country, (...) who as a person and citizen trust, respect and thank himself the resident and the magistrate has earned.

After his retirement, Marcus moved to live with his daughters in England, where he died in Manchester on October 7, 1881.

swell

  • Feilchenfeld: Sermon held at the farewell ceremony of the advocate Dr. jur. P. Marcus in the synagogue in Schwerin. Bützow: Berg [in Komm.], 1876. 16 pages
  • Bernd Kasten: Schwerin. In: Diekmann, Irene (Ed.): Guide through the Jewish Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Potsdam 1998. pp. 224-252. [In it especially the section: The Jewish community [Schwerin] in the 19th century. , Pp. 229–233]
  • Heinz Hirsch: Traces of Jewish Life in Mecklenburg. 4. revised Edition Schwerin, 2006. ( PDF file; 5.39 MB ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In The Jewish Encyclopedia is 15 October 1809 mentioned as date of birth; in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin census of 1819 the date of birth is October 1810 .
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Cf. Statute for the general church conditions of Israelite subjects in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Schwerin: Hofbuchdruckerei, 1839.
  4. ↑ Frederick the Pious confirmed the statutes adopted by the Landtag in Schwaan to the rural Jews through the rules and statutes for the protective Jews living in the ducal Mecklenburg lands , cf. Collection of laws for the Mecklenburg-Schwerin'schen Lande : 6 vols., Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Raabe (ed.), Wismar u. a .: Hinstorff, 1844-1859, 'IV. Volume: Church stuff. Teaching and educational institutions. Statutory matters' (1852), No. 3231, p. 183seqq.
  5. ^ Negotiations of the Congress of German MPs. Frankfurt: Boselli 1863, p. XIII

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personal data
SURNAME Marcus, Lewis Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marcus, Lewis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehna
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1881
Place of death Manchester , England