Max Silberschmidt (lawyer)

Max Silberschmidt (born on October 23, 1853 in Braunschweig ; died on June 21, 1932 in Bad Harzburg ) was a German judiciary and lawyer .

life and work

The baptized son of the Jewish lawyer Hirsch Hermann Silberschmidt (1801–1866) studied law and became an auditor in 1876. From January 1878 he worked for the Helmstedt district directorate before moving to the Braunschweig district court in October of that year. He worked as a lawyer and was a member of the supervisory boards of several companies, including Grimme, Natalis & Co. and the Pantherwerke . The lucrative supervisory board activity made him extremely wealthy. In 1917 he became the chief representative of Hamburger Versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft. Silberschmidt was a member of the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein as well as the German-Austrian Alpine Association . He died in Bad Harzburg in 1932 and was buried in the main cemetery in Braunschweig .

family

Silberschmidt was married to a Christian. The marriage had five children. The eldest daughter Anna was killed in a bomb attack on Braunschweig in 1944. The younger daughter Elisabeth emigrated to Portugal. The daughter Margaret Silberschmidt married Erich Scheyer, co-owner of the Maseberg canning factory in Braunschweig . Both emigrated to England in 1938. The son Hans Silberschmidt, born in 1898, a Braunschweig merchant, took part in the First World War and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class. He was also a participant in World War II , but was released as a half-Jew in 1941 . He was arrested in 1944 and taken to the Blankenburg satellite camp as a forced laborer , where he remained until the end of the war.

literature

• Reinhard Bein : Eternal House. Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-925268-24-3 .
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 571 .
• Richard Moderhack : Brunsvicensia judaica. Memorial book for the Jewish fellow citizens of the city of Braunschweig 1933–1945 (Braunschweiger Werkstücke, Volume 35), Braunschweig 1966.