Max Suessheim

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Max Suessheim (1919)

Maximilian (Max) Süssheim , also Süssheim (* July 20, 1876 in Nuremberg ; † March 1, 1933 ibid) was a German lawyer, the last Jewish member of the Bavarian state parliament and an art collector.

Life

Süßheim was the son of the hop trader Sigmund Süßheim from Kronach , who moved to Nuremberg in 1870, and his wife Clara. On his mother's side, he was a grandson of the Bavarian state politician David Morgenstern . His younger brother was the historian and orientalist Karl Süssheim .

Süßheim studied law at the University of Munich , where in 1898 he completed his legal internship with his dissertation Die Favored (Verlag Bickel, Munich 1898) as a Dr. jur. received his doctorate . He also studied philosophy at the University of Erlangen , where he was awarded a doctorate in 1900 with his dissertation The modern auction trade (Duncker & Humblot publishing house, Leipzig 1900). phil. PhD.

In 1901, Süßheim passed the state examination in law and was admitted to the bar in Fürth in 1902 and in Nuremberg in 1903. Ten years later (1913) he brought Albert Rosenfelder , 16 years his junior and SPD member like Süssheim himself, into the office as a partner . He lived privately at Adlerstrasse 35. He later became a judicial advisor at the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court . From 1919 he was a member of the State Court .

From 1914 to 1919 he was municipal representative and from 1919 to 1933, as a leading SPD politician, he was a member and parliamentary group leader in the city ​​council of his home town of Nuremberg. For the SPD he was also a member of the Bavarian state parliament from 1907 to 1918 , after the revolution of 1918 for the MSPD he was a member of the Provisional National Council in Bavaria and from 1919 to 1920 again a member of the state parliament . In February 1919 he was the delegate and keynote speaker of the SPD in the negotiations of the Reichsrätekongress in Berlin .

Süssheim was a strict opponent of the First World War and spokesman for the subsequent revolution in Nuremberg. He was considered the most important Jewish politician in Nuremberg in the early 20th century.

At the meeting of the Bavarian state parliament on September 28, 1917, the social democratic parliamentary group applied for a comprehensive reform of the Bavarian constitution with the motion brought in by the members of parliament Süssheim and Erhard Auer . In addition to the introduction of the one-year financial period and proportional representation for all citizens of legal age, the dissolution of entails , the abolition of the nobility and the abolition of the privileges of the king and religious communities, the main point demanded was a reform of the constitution into a parliamentary monarchy . These maximum demands were primarily intended to initiate a discussion of constitutional questions and thus lead to reforms, but because of their radical nature prevented them from being dealt with more closely in the state parliament.

On July 20, 1921, Süßheim was one of the founding members of the Friends of the Nuremberg School of Commerce, together with the then mayor Hermann Luppe and the factory owner Siegfried Guggenheimer .

At the funeral of Süssheim in March 1933 in Nuremberg, he had died of a heart attack early in the morning of March 1st while walking , Lord Mayor Hermann Luppe gave the funeral speech - as one of his last official acts. Sussheim had defended Luppe in his trials against Julius Streicher . In his will, the Nuremberg SPD city councilor Sussheim lamented increasing anti-Semitic tendencies in the city, even in his own party.

He bequeathed his extensive collection of pictures and documents, valued at 26,874 Reichsmarks , to his wife Hedwig. Five years later, she committed suicide directly after the pogrom night on November 10, 1938. The country's culture administrator of Gau Franken Hans Bäselsöder (1900-1983) prevented 1935-1945 the export of Süßheimschen art collection to New York.

Works

  • Favoring , dissertation, Verlag Bickel, Munich 1898
  • Nothing remains hidden forever (with Dominik Radlmaier), in: Norica - Reports and Topics from the Nuremberg City Archives , Volume 5 (2009), pages 39–43
  • Revolution and Bavarian Constitution , Bavarian SPD State Executive (Ed.), Augsburg Book Printing and Publishing House, 1920
  • The modern auction trade , dissertation, Duncker & Humblot publishing house, Leipzig 1900
  • The parliamentary activity of Dr. jur. David Morgensterns , 1899
  • Support for the poor for non-Bavarian Germans in Bavaria , in: Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics , Volume 79, 1902
  • The naming rights of women and children in the German Civil Code , in: Gruchot's contributions , pp. 579-590, 1899
  • Legal consequences of fraudulent silence when buying, donating and renting (PDF; 3.5 MB) , in: Dr. JA Seuffert's Leaflets for the Application of Law , Volume 66, Pages 205-214, 1901

literature

  • Hans-Michael Körner, Bruno Jahn: Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 3 (P – Z), Verlag KG Saur, 2005, ISBN 3598114605
  • Dominik Radlmaier: Nothing stays hidden forever. Max Süßheim and the fate of his art collection in the Third Reich , in: Norica - Reports and Topics from the Nuremberg City Archives , Volume 5, 2009, pp. 39–43.
  • Süssheim, Max , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 361

Web links

Commons : Maximilian Suessheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernest Hamburger: Jews in Public Life in Germany , 1968, page 174 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Barbara Fleming: The Diary of Karl Süssheim (1878-1947). Orientalist between Munich and Istanbul , 1982, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Documents from secret archives. Overviews by the Berlin political police on the general situation of the social democratic and anarchist movement 1878-1913 , page 466, Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, 2004 ( excerpt )
  4. ^ Arnd Müller: History of the Jews in Nuremberg 1146-1945 , page 174ff., Nuremberg City Library, 1968 ( excerpt ).
  5. ↑ Reinhard Weber: The fate of the Jewish lawyers in Bavaria after 1933 , 2006, page 14 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Hermann Hanschel: Lord Mayor Hermann Luppe. Nuremberg local politics in the Weimar Republic , self-published by the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg, Nuremberg 1977.
  7. ^ Franz J. Bauer: The Eisner government “1918/19” , page 190, Verlag Droste, 1987 ( excerpt ).
  8. ^ Historical Lexicon of Bavaria: Parliamentary Reform Attempts .
  9. ^ Gerhard Hirschmann, Kuno Ulshöfer: From seven centuries of Nuremberg city history , page 259, self-published by the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg, 1988, ISBN 3871911275 . - In other literature it is also said that he died after a long illness or that he committed suicide. - His partner Albert Rosenfelder was arrested only a few days later, deported to the Dachau concentration camp and died there in June 1933.
  10. ↑ Leibl Rosenberg: Traces and Fragments. Jewish books, Jewish fates in Nuremberg , page 95, Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg (ed.), Nürnberg 2000 ( excerpt ).
  11. ↑ Like searching for a needle in a haystack (PDF; 204 kB).
  12. ^ Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia: The völkisch awakening in Neustadt an der Aisch 1922–1933. Verlag Philipp Schmidt, 2016 (= Streiflichter from home history. Special volume 4); ISBN 978-3-87707-990-4 , pp. 201 f.
  13. ↑ Dominik Radlmaier (2009), pp. 39–42.
personal data
SURNAME Sussheim, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Süssheim, Max; Sussheim, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Bavarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1933
Place of death Nuremberg