Manfred Horowitz

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Stumbling stone in front of Horowitz 'former office in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse.

Manfred Horowitz (born January 15, 1880 in Hamburg ; † November 14, 1937 there ) was a German lawyer and politician of the SPD .

Life and work

Horowitz came from a Jewish family, but was himself non-denominational. After attending the foundation school from 1815 between 1886 and 1889, he attended school at the Christianeum in Altona (1889 to 1898). After the graduation he spent three years studying law in Kiel , Munich and Berlin . In 1901 the trainee exam at the University of Kiel followed. After obtaining his doctorate in law in Rostock in the same year, he passed the second legal examination in 1905 at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court . In 1905 he settled as a lawyer in his hometown of Hamburg and ran a law firm with Hans Heymann on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse in Neustadt .

Since he had already been admitted to the bar before 1914, Horowitz was able to practice his profession even after the National Socialists came to power, despite his Jewish descent . In order not to endanger his wife and daughter, he divorced in November 1936 and emigrated to New York in January 1937 . However, out of homesickness and longing for his family, he returned to Germany in July of the same year. When the state authorities asked him to leave the territory of the German Reich by November 18, 1937, he killed himself because he could not imagine a life without his family and his homeland.

MP

In 1919 Horowitz briefly belonged to the Hamburg parliament for the SPD and was a member of the citizens' committee .

Commemoration

In memory of Manfred Horowitz, a stumbling stone was set in front of his house at Lenhartzstrasse 7 and in front of his office at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse 23 .

literature

  • Heiko Morisse , Jewish lawyers in Hamburg. Exclusion and persecution in the Nazi state. Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1418-0 , page 136.
  • Federal Bar Association (Hrsg.): Lawyer without law. Fate of Jewish lawyers in Germany after 1933. Berlin 2007, p. 213
  • Ursula Büttner : Political new beginning in difficult times. Election and work of the first democratic citizenship 1919-1921. Hamburg 1994, p. 117.

Web links

Commons : Manfred Horowitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stumbling blocks in Hamburg
personal data
SURNAME Horowitz, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (SPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1937
Place of death Hamburg