Nathan Stein (lawyer)

Tombstone of Nathan Stein

Nathan Stein (born November 11, 1857 in Neckarsulm ; † May 8, 1927 in Mannheim ) was a German judge. He was the first jurist of the Jewish faith to be appointed president of a court in Germany.

Life

Nathan Stein completed his law studies with a doctorate and the state examinations and entered the judiciary in 1883. His first position was the Sinsheim District Court . In 1884 he moved to Engen , in 1884 to Mannheim, where he was appointed chief magistrate in 1892. In 1894 he was promoted to regional judge, in 1900, now in Karlsruhe , he was promoted to higher regional judge . In 1914 Stein was appointed President of the Mannheim Regional Court and held this office until 1923.

Stein had been a member of the Synodal Council since 1895 and temporarily president of the Upper Council of the Israelites in Baden .

Nathan Stein's grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Mannheim .

literature

• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
• Berthold Rosenthal : Local history of the Jews of Baden 1st reprint edition. [d. Ed.] Bühl / Baden, Konkordia, 1927. Magstadt near Stuttgart: Bissinger, 1981, p. 397f. ISBN 3-7644-0092-7
• Stone, Nathan. In: Karl Otto Watzinger : History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1984, p. 137, ISBN 3-17-008696-0 .
• Ernest Hamburger: Jews in public life in Germany [...] . Tübingen: Mohr, 1968.

Demarcation

The judge Nathan Stein should not be confused with the lawyer, banker, professor of economics and president of the Israelite High Council, Nathan Stein (1881 Worms - New York 1966) - also resident in Karlsruhe . A lawyer of the same name, born in Danzig on July 29, 1854, who wrote his dissertation on the forum delicti commissi and the concept of captivity in Bonn in 1876 , has no recognizable connection with the above.