Moritz Philipp Hertz

Moritz Philipp Hertz (born July 7, 1871 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 5, 1940 in Boston ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Hertz came from a Jewish merchant family from Frankfurt. He was the son of the businessman Philipp Moritz Hertz (born September 20, 1837 in Frankfurt am Main; † April 27, 1914) and his wife Stephanie Eleonore née Bing (born February 28, 1843 in Frankfurt am Main; † January 15, 1919 ibid ). Before 1906 he married Auguste Betty Bonn (born June 16, 1886 in Frankfurt am Main; † June 14, 1873 in Wolfeboro, NH / USA).

He attended the Wöhlerschule and the municipal grammar school and, after graduating from high school, studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin. From 1898 he was a lawyer at the Frankfurt Regional Court, and from 1920 also a notary .

politics

He was a member of the Democratic Association and later the Freedom , the Progressive People's Party and in the Weimar Republic of the German Democratic Party . From 1907 to 1924 he was a city councilor in Frankfurt am Main. 1909–1910 and 1919–1924 he was deputy head of the city council in Frankfurt am Main. From 1911 to 1920 he was a member of the Nassau Municipal Parliament of the Prussian administrative district of Wiesbaden and the Provincial Parliament of the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau for the urban district of Frankfurt . In the state parliament he was a member of the officials and submission committee.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the notary was revoked in 1,933th As an "old attorney" he was initially able to remain a lawyer. In August 1938, however, he had to release his Frankfurt law firm and emigrate to the USA.

literature

• Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pp. 148–149.
• Barbara Dölemeyer : Short biographies of lawyers of Jewish origin in the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court district; in: 125 years: Frankfurt am Main Bar Association, pp. 157–158.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 178.

Web links

• Hertz, Moritz Philipp. Hessian biography. (As of June 18, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).