Max Fleischmann (lawyer)

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Max Fleischmann (born October 5, 1872 in Breslau , † January 14, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German international lawyer and professor of law in Königsberg (Prussia) and Halle (Saale) . He was married to Anne -Josephine Fleischmann geb. Guglielmini .

Life

Max Fleischmann was of Protestant denomination and came from a family of Jewish merchants. His mother was Mathilde Fleischmann geb. Schönlank , his father Paul Fleischmann . Max attended school in Wroclaw and graduated from the Royal High School in Krotoschin in 1891. He began to study law at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Wroclaw and also attended lectures in political science , history and philosophy . In 1892/93 he served as a one-year volunteer in Breslau. On December 5, 1894, he passed the first legal examination at the OLG Breslau.

His dissertation with Moritz Wlassak dealt with a border area between Romance studies and law, the right of attachment. On December 17, 1894, he became a civil servant at the Carlsruhe District Court , then a trainee lawyer there and in Breslau. From September 1895, Fleischmann worked at the Hirschberg district court , later at the public prosecutor's office in Brieg and at the Wroclaw Higher Regional Court. He completed his habilitation in 1898 with a thesis on The Path of Legislation in Prussia and passed the assessor examination in 1899 . On 1 May 1902 he was a lecturer for heads of state , administrative and international law , from 1910, in addition to colonial law . The inaugural lecture was Frederican Socialism . In April 1905 he became a district judge in Halle, and in 1908 he was titular professor there. In 1910 he was given a lectureship in colonial law here. In the period that followed, he increasingly distinguished himself as an international lawyer.

From 1911 to 1921 Fleischmann worked at the Albertus University in Königsberg , in 1915 (or 1919) he became a full professor for various areas of law, in addition to those listed above, also for canon law and German legal history. From 1917 to 1919 he was also President of the Senate at the Reich Arbitration Court for War Economics and in a ministerial commission to resolve disputes after the fall of the Hohenzollerns . In Koenigsberg he became chairman of the colonial association. In RanGes German colonial club , he was for many years the main board.

In 1921 he was appointed professor for constitutional and colonial law with a teaching position for agricultural law at the law and political science faculty of the Friedrichs University in Halle . As an internationally known international lawyer, Fleischmann became an expert on international disputes. This was followed by an appointment as Senate President at the Reich Economic Court .

From 1922 to 1927 and 1931/1932 he was dean (university) of the law faculty. 1925/1926 he was the rector of the Friedrichs University in Halle. In 1927 he founded an institute for newspapers , a forerunner of media and communication studies. In 1928 he initiated a foundation on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Christian Thomasius , the lawyer and first rector of the University of Halle. In 1930, as a representative of the Weimar Republic , he signed the final act of the Hague Conference for the Codification of International Law.

As a result of the Professional Civil Service Act , he was forced to retire in 1935 because of his Jewish origins . The final revocation of the teaching permit followed in 1936. He moved to Berlin in 1941 and had contacts with members of the later military resistance ( July 20, 1944 ). Since he refused to wear the Jewish star , the Gestapo wanted to arrest him on January 14, 1943 in the house of the former Justice Minister Eugen Schiffer . He evaded arrest by suicide . He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Commemoration

Stumbling stone in memory of Max Fleischmann

The city of Halle honored Fleischmann on August 21, 1946 by naming the street in the Giebichenstein district . On December 12, 2006, in memory of Fleischmann, a stumbling block was laid in front of his last place of residence in Halle, Rathenauplatz 14 (formerly Kaiserplatz) .

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SURNAME Fleischmann, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German international lawyer and professor of law
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1943
Place of death Berlin