Moritz Ellstätter

Moritz Ellstätter

Moritz Ellstätter (born March 11, 1827 in Karlsruhe , † June 14, 1905 there ) was a Baden minister.

Ellstätter was born the son of a Jewish furniture dealer and attended the Karlsruhe Lyceum , studied law in Heidelberg and Bonn and learned banking at the discount bank in Berlin. During his studies he became a member of the old fraternity Allemannia Heidelberg in 1844 . Since 1845 he belonged to the republican Neckarbund . In 1859 he settled in Durlach as a lawyer down, entered in 1864 into the civil service and became the Council on county and Hofgericht in Mannheim, 1866 by Karl Mathy appointed counsel in the Ministry of Finance, according to Mathys death in 1868 his successor as president of the Treasury. He was the first and until 1918 only Jewish member of the government in Germany.

Ellstätter first created a new regulation of the property tax , which he was able to lower. In 1871 he became a member of the Federal Council and consultant on the coin laws and in 1874 introduced a withholding tax on interest income in Baden. From 1886 a general income tax applied , whereby Ellstätter endeavored to distribute the burdens more and more between the growing economy and higher-income people in order to relieve the working class. In 1886 he was given the title of "Finance Minister" (it was not until 1906 that the department heads were also appointed ministers).

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 250.
• Otto Ellstätter: Moritz Ellstätter , in: Albert Krieger (ed.): Badische Biographien , Part VI (1902-1911) . Heidelberg 1927, p. 280 ( digitized version )
• Günther Haselier:  Ellstätter, Moritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 460 ( digitized version ).
• Heinz Schmitt (Ed.): Jews in Karlsruhe. Contributions to their history up to the National Socialist seizure of power , Badenia-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1988 (2nd revised edition 1990), pp. 493–500, ISBN 978-3-89735-339-8 .

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