Lippmann Wolff Reis

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Lippmann Wolff Reis (born February 15, 1788 in Hildesheim ; died April 13, 1851 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German merchant , court banker and lottery collector. From 1827 to 1851 he was head of the Jewish community in Wolfenbüttel.

Life

Reis was born in Hildesheim in 1788, where he became prosperous with a successful textile trade . His brother was the textile merchant Marcus Wolff Reis (born 1781 in Hildesheim; died 1841 in Braunschweig). Lippmann Wolff Reis moved to Wolfenbüttel in 1802 and ran a large goods store there . In 1813 Reis was given the newly established office of ducal court banker. He was thus responsible for financing the liberation struggle against the Napoleonic occupation . For this purpose he successfully issued a war loan, whereby the Wolfenbüttel citizens were able to purchase shares. After the dissolution of the Kingdom of Westphalia , Reis became a lottery collector of the Brunswick State Lottery.

From 1827 to 1851 Reis was head of the Jewish community in Wolfenbüttel. In 1835 he was the first Wolfenbüttel Jew to be granted civil rights after years of struggle. Reis successfully went to court against an anti-Jewish insult (“Jew aside!”) By a Wolfenbüttel citizen, who took the view that naming a person only because of his religious affiliation had “something hateful”. The defendant was sentenced to an apology and an atonement.

Reis was married twice. He had six sons and six daughters. He died in 1851 and was buried in the Wolfenbüttel Jewish cemetery , where his gravestone has been preserved. The lottery business he founded in Wolfenbüttel was carried on by his descendants until it was forcibly dissolved at the time of National Socialism .

literature

  • Reinhard Bein : Eternal House - Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig , Döringdruck, Braunschweig 2004, pp. 89–91.
  • Jürgen Kumlehn: Jewish families in Wolfenbüttel - traces and fates , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig, 2009, p. 370ff.
  • Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen , Volume 2, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 1573ff.
  • Nicole Warmbold: Reis, Lippmann Wolff . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 482 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Bein : Ewiges Haus - Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig , Döringdruck, Braunschweig 2004, p. 89.
  2. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Ebeling : The Jews in Braunschweig , Braunschweiger Werkstücke Volume 65, Braunschweig, 1987, p. 381.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Kumlehn: Jewish families in Wolfenbüttel - traces and fates , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig, 2009, p. 370ff.
personal data
SURNAME Reis, Lippmann Wolff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, court banker and lottery collector
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1851
Place of death Wolfenbüttel