Max Cohen (lawyer)

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Max Cohen (born March 15, 1842 in Altona , † July 15, 1918 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Cohen graduated from school in the fall of 1859 and then studied law. He completed his studies in Heidelberg in 1862. Cohen was declared of legal age in Hamburg in 1862 by resolution of the Senate. On May 18, 1864 Cohen was in Hamburg as a lawyer admitted he was enrolled as such until the 1918th In 1870 he associated himself with Simon Israel in the company Dr. Max Cohen & Dr. Simon Israel . After 1895 the company changed to Drs. Max Cohen & Blumenfeld, Tachau & Tendler .

Cohen had been a member of the Hamburg property owners association since 1878, was vice-president there from 1882 and first chairman from 1896 until his death. Since 1890 he was the community president of the Jewish community on Rothenbaum.

Cohen was one from 1902 to 1918 the Hamburg Parliament that he was a member of the faction of the Left , since 1918 the Hamburg group .

literature

  • Directory of members of the Hamburg Parliament from 1859 to 1959 - short biographies. Compiled and edited by Franz Th. Mönckeberg. Hardcover typewriter manuscript, No. 293

Individual evidence

  1. a b Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg legal profession from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-923725-17-5 , p. 361