Max Jeselsohn

Max Jeselsohn (born April 10, 1871 in Neckarbischofsheim , † February 20, 1937 in Karlsruhe ) was a German lawyer and local politician.

Life

Jesesohn was the son of the merchant Isaak Jeselsohn (1835-1893) and his wife Auguste, b. Bachert (1841-1904). After graduating from the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in Mannheim in 1889 , he studied law in Berlin , Heidelberg and Erlangen . In 1896 he received his doctorate in Erlangen. In the same year he joined the B'nai B'rith lodge . From 1897 Jeselsohn was a lawyer in Mannheim and worked for the Progressive People's Party in Mannheim's local politics. In 1899 he married Fanny Oppenheimer (1875–1968), the couple had a daughter. In 1905 Jeselsohn joined the Mannheim Citizens' Committee, where in 1911 he also became chairman of the faction of the Progressive People's Party. As a war volunteer he was deployed in Alsace in 1914/15 and took part in the battle at Hartmannsweilerkopf.

After the First World War, Jeselsohn became parliamentary group leader of the German Democratic Party in the Mannheim Citizens' Committee , which had emerged from the Progressive People's Party. In 1922 he came as a deputy to the city council and in 1931 he became a member of the city council. His commitment to local politics ended with the dissolution of the democratic city council in 1933.

In addition to his local political work, Jeselsohn also held various posts in the Mannheim Jewish community. So he was z. B. has been a member of the Synagogue Council since 1911 and was a member of the Israelite regional synod.

In 1934 Jeselsohn was awarded the Cross of Honor for Frontline Fighters . Under the pressure of National Socialist conditions, he soon had to close his law firm. He died unexpectedly in 1937 while visiting Karlsruhe. His widow Fanny was deported to Gurs on October 22, 1940 , but was later able to go into hiding with her daughter in Paris and thus survived the Holocaust. The couple's grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Mannheim.

Works

• For the interpretation of paragraph 216 R.-St.-G.-B. , Mannheim: Mannheimer Verl.-Dr., 1896 (Erlangen, Univ., Diss.).

literature

• Karl Otto Watzinger : History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945. With 52 biographies , 2nd edition Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1987 (Publications of the Mannheim City Archives; 12) ISBN 3-17-009646-X , pp. 108-109.
• Maximilian Früh: Dr. Max Jeselsohn (1871–1937) - lawyer and liberal politician . In: Wilhelm Kreuz, Volker von Offenberg (ed.): Jewish students of the United Grand Ducal Lyceum - Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim. Portraits from two decades, Mannheim 2014 (series of publications by the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim in cooperation with the Mannheim City Archives - Institute for Urban History; 2), ISBN 978-3-95428-153-4 , pp. 139–146.