Max Ludwig Cahn

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Max Ludwig Cahn (born May 23, 1889 in Mainz , † October 14, 1967 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer and notary .

Life

Max Ludwig Cahn was the son of the businessman Wilhelm Cahn (1855-1897). He attended the Lessing Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main and then the Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium there, where he graduated from high school in 1907. He studied in Freiburg, Berlin and Marburg law . The first state exam was he he makes his legal 1910. the District Court Nassau , the Landgericht Frankfurt am Main and lawyers. In 1917 he passed the second state examination. He also did military service . After the war he became a lawyer and notary. As a Jew, he was subject to persecution during the National Socialist era . In 1933, 278 of 607 (i.e. 45%) of the lawyers in the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court were Jews. Most of these were deleted from the list of attorneys due to the law on admission to the bar in 1933. This affected 108 lawyers in Frankfurt. As an officer in the First World War , Cahn was not affected by this law because of the frontline fighter privilege . Nevertheless, on November 30, 1938, he lost his license to practice as a lawyer due to the 5th ordinance on the Reich Citizenship Act .

Most Jewish lawyers were forced to flee or murdered during the 12 years of Nazi rule. Due to his reputation, Max Ludwig Cahn was appointed by the new rulers as " Consultant for legal advice and representation of Jews" in Frankfurt am Main during the Nazi era. Eventually he was arrested too and taken to Buchenwald concentration camp , but survived.

From 1946 he was again a lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main . There he became deputy chairman of the newly re-established Frankfurt Bar Association from 1948 and remained a member of the board until 1959. In 1949 he became President of the Chamber and in 1956 President of the Court of Honor for Lawyers at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1948 he became a member of the Jewish Community in Frankfurt am Main . He was also a member of the board and board of trustees of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation . In 1959 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

In 1917 he married Ottilie (Tilly) Therese Pauline Schulze (born January 4, 1892), who was a Protestant denomination. The musician Peter Cahn is his son.

literature

  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 127 .
  • Johann Günther Knopp: A contribution to the history of the Frankfurt Bar Association; in: 125 years: Frankfurt am Main Bar Association, pp. 40–41.
  • Barbara Dölemeyer : Short biographies of lawyers of Jewish origin in the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court district; in: 125 years: Frankfurt am Main Bar Association, p. 142.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Günther Knopp: A contribution to the history of the Frankfurt Bar Association; in: 125 years: Bar Association Frankfurt am Main, p. 33 / In: Federal Minister of Justice (Ed.): In the name of the German people. (Catalog for the exhibition of the Federal Ministry of Justice) Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-8046-8731-8 , p. 77 Slight deviation of the numbers: 275 from 607; 105 RA resigned by law.
personal data
SURNAME Cahn, Max Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and notary
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1967
Place of death Frankfurt am Main