Maximilian Reinganum

Maximilian Reinganum (born December 31, 1798 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 22, 1878 ibid) was a German lawyer , politician and publicist.

life and work

Reinganum was born to Jewish parents in Frankfurt's Judengasse , where the family had been based since around 1700. It originally came from Rheingönheim , which in the dialectal corruption became pure goanum .

Maximilian's father Wolf Herz Reinganum (1756–1828) was a lottery taker and thus became wealthy. After the emancipation of the Frankfurt Jews by Grand Duke Carl Theodor von Dalberg in 1811, he was able to acquire Frankfurt citizenship.

Maximilian was one of the first Jews to attend Frankfurt grammar school in 1812 and studied law in Göttingen from 1816 and later in Heidelberg . In 1818 he joined the old Heidelberg fraternity . At 19, he reached the legal doctorate in August 1818 sent a petition to the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt for admission to Advocatur . This request and another one, however, remained unanswered because the Free City of Frankfurt had revoked the legal equality of Jews in the constitutional amendment. Reinganum was then baptized in May 1821 and became a member of the Protestant Church , whereupon the Senate admitted him as a lawyer under certain conditions.

He was a friend of Ludwig Börne , whom he represented in legal matters, and throughout his life campaigned for equal rights for Jewish citizens, which was not completed until 1864.

Since 1822 he was a member of the book inspection of the Frankfurt City Library . In 1827 he married Pauline geb. Deer . As a talented lawyer, who had also been the in-house lawyer of the respected Rothschild family since 1830 , he soon gained great recognition and was one of the most successful lawyers in Frankfurt. From 1830 he was also politically active; he belonged with interruptions until the Prussian annexation in 1866 of the legislative assembly and also of the permanent citizens' representation (until 1848). In numerous political processes he represented the democratic forces and the freedom of the press, which after the Frankfurt Wachensturm of 1833 were under increasing pressure from the anti-press resolutions of the Bundestag , which met in Frankfurt .

Grave of Maximilian Reinganum

In 1845 he became a co-founder and one of the spokesmen of the Monday wreath , an amalgamation of the radical democratic political associations in Frankfurt. In March 1848, Reinganum was a member of the preliminary parliament in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt . However , he lost the election of the Frankfurt representative for the National Assembly , which took place on April 24, 1848 , against his more moderate class colleague Friedrich Siegmund Jucho . Reinganum became a member of the Constituent Assembly of the Free City of Frankfurt.

After the failure of the revolution and the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in January 1850, he turned to trade policy. As a consultant to the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and the Frankfurter Bank founded in 1854 , he represented the city on several German trading days until 1874. After the annexation of the Free City by Prussia, he was a city councilor from 1867 until his death.

In 1862 he became editor of Börne's collected works . His last public appearance was on the occasion of the inauguration of the Frankfurt stock exchange monument in 1877. He died on June 22, 1878 in Frankfurt and was buried on June 25, 1878 in the Frankfurt main cemetery.

The Reinganumstrasse in Ostend is named after him.

Works

De Constituta Pecunia, Praesertim Cum Quis Suo Nomine Constituat. Commentatio Inauguralis. Scripsit Maximilianus Reinganum . Heidelberg 1819 (dissertation) digitized
Overview of the political history of the Middle Ages . Warentrapp, Frankfurt am Main 1822. MDZ Reader
German citizens protest for freedom of the press in Germany . F. König, Hanau 1832.
(Ed.): Ludwig Börne: Collected writings. New complete edition . 12 volumes. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg / Rütten & Lönig, Frankfurt a. M. 1862.

literature

Rudolf Jung : Reinganum, Maximilian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 285 f.
Paul Arnsberg : The history of the Frankfurt Jews since the French Revolution. Volume III: Biographical lexicon of the Jews in the areas: science, culture, education, public relations in Frankfurt am Main . Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-7929-0130-7 , p. 363.
Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 185 f .

Web links

Commons : Maximilian Reinganum - collection of images, videos and audio files

BUNDESARCHIV - Central database for estates In: '' nachlassdatenbank.de ''. Retrieved on September 2, 2016 (information about Maximilian Reinganum's estate at the Institute for City History Frankfurt)
Reinganum, Maximilian. Hessian biography. (As of May 9, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Reinganum, Maximilian in the Frankfurt personal dictionary

Individual evidence

^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 40-42.

personal data
SURNAME	Reinganum, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, politician and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	June 22, 1878
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 40-42.