Max Mittelstein

Max Mittelstein (born September 21, 1861 in Hamburg-St. Georg , † September 25, 1927 in Hamburg ) was a German judge .

Life

Mittelstein grew up in Hamburg as the son of a civil servant. After successfully attending a school in Altona, he moved to the Johanneum in 1879 , which he completed in 1881 with the best Abitur of his year. Funded by a scholarship, Mittelstein studied law in Göttingen , Leipzig and Kiel . In Kiel he passed the state examination in law in 1884; in the same year he obtained a doctorate from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Then Mittelstein became a trainee lawyer in the Hamburg State Service and passed the 2nd state examination in 1887. This was followed by two years as an assessor, and in 1889 he was appointed magistrate. In 1893 he was appointed assistant judge at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court , and in 1895 Mittelstein was elected to the Higher Regional Court Council by the Lübeck Senate. In 1912 he became President of the 5th Civil Senate and on October 1, 1921, he was appointed President of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court after Gustav Hansen had retired.

Mittelstein belonged to the Hamburg parliament from 1901 to 1921 . First for the faction of the right , later for the German People's Party .

Mittelstein played a large part in the establishment of the Hamburg University , for whose establishment he campaigned vehemently in the citizenry. The decision of the citizens, which led to the foundation of the university in 1919, was made at the request of Mittelstein and comrades . Mittelstein later worked first as a lecturer and later as an honorary professor at the University of Hamburg.

Works (selection)

• One child under Hamburg law. Hamburg, Seippel, 1886
• The rent according to the law of the German Reich. 1900
• German ship lien and ship creditors' law. 1889

source

• Hans Joachim Kurland : Judges: Ernst Friedrich Sieveking - Max Mittelstein - Herbert Ruscheweyh. In: Law and Jurists in Hamburg. Volume I, 1994, ISBN 3-452-23025-2 , pp. 333f.