Max Apt

Max Apt (born June 16, 1869 in Groß Strehlitz ; died December 16, 1957 in West Berlin ) was a German business lawyer.

Life

Max Apt was the son of Solomon Apt and Henriette Stern. He studied law in Breslau, Leipzig and Berlin and received his doctorate in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1891. He practiced as a lawyer in Berlin and was one of the founders of the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith in 1893 . In 1894 he published under a pseudonym a legal pamphlet against the lack of will of the German prosecution to punish anti-Semitic insults.

In 1903, Apt was appointed the first in-house counsel of the “Korporation der Kaufmannschaft Berlin”. When the Handelshochschule Berlin was founded in 1906, he was one of the co-founders and later became its curator . The commercial college made him an honorary professor. Apt was co-founder and editor of the "Deutsche Wirtschaftszeitung". He also wrote articles for "The German Reich Legislation".

Apt was a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP) and the Jewish lodge B'nai B'rith . During the Nazi era , he represented the Jewish Community in Berlin at the Évian Conference in 1938 . Apt emigrated to Great Britain in 1939. He did not return to Berlin until 1954 and was still volunteering for the decimated Jewish community.

Fonts (selection)

• The obligation to issue documents in the history of dogma . Berlin: Max high jump, 1892
• Maximilian Parmot (pseudonym): Anti-Semitism and criminal justice . For the interpretation and application of §§ 130, 166, 185, 193, 36011 Penal Code in highest court and first instance practice . Berlin, 1894
• The war and the position of the German Empire as a world power . Leipzig: Hirzel, 1914
• (Ed.): The Prussian state legislation - collection of text editions. Bookshop of the orphanage, Halle / S. u. Berlin 1933–1935. About 14 volumes (with supplements).
• Constructive emigration policy: a contribution to Jewish overseas colonization . Berlin: Philo-Verlag , 1936

literature

• Michael P. Hensle: Apt, Max. In: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/1, 2009, p. 29
• 25 years in the service of the Berlin merchants . Berlin-Zehlendorf: Seven rods, 1927
• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 10.
• Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 17f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Apt in the catalog of the German National Library