Norbert Regensburger

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Stumbling block for Norbert Regensburger in front of the entrance to the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Braunschweig

Norbert (Nathan) Regensburger (pseudonym: Trebron = acronym for "Norbert", born on May 25, 1886 in Braunschweig ; died on April 26, 1933 there ) was a German lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Braunschweig Parliament and from 1922 to 1924 its vice-president. From 1926 to 1932 he was head of the Braunschweig Jewish Community.

life and work

Regensburger's tombstone in the Jewish cemetery (2014)

Born under the name Nathan Ernst, the son of the Jewish leather merchant Moritz Regensburger (1854–1924) and his wife Gertrud, b. Schönlank (1860–1914), attended the Wilhelm Gymnasium in Braunschweig and after graduating from high school, studied law in Munich and Berlin. He put 1908 in Braunschweig, the state examination , and was during his traineeship in Seesen active and Braunschweig. He received his doctorate in Rostock in 1911 with the dissertation The press law correction obligation . In 1911 he changed his first name from Nathan to Norbert. After passing the second state examination, he was admitted to the bar on July 8, 1912. In 1919 he was appointed notary . In 1930 he was admitted to the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court . On April 26, 1933, Regensburg committed suicide after the previous day in the Braunschweigische Staatszeitung an advertisement from his two chancelleries reported that Regensburger had left the joint practice. Regensburger was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Braunschweig.

Stand up for Jewish issues

Regensburger was a main board member of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, founded in 1893 . This association represented the majority of assimilated bourgeois-liberal Jews in Germany , advocated their civil rights and their social equality and tried to reconcile Judaism and Germanness . From 1926 until his resignation in September 1932 he was head of the Braunschweig Jewish community and from 1927 to 1928 president of the Leopold-Zunz-Lodge there. Regensburger was a co-founder of the neutral Jewish youth associations.

Political activity

He was active in the left-liberal German Democratic Party (DDP), for which he was elected as a member of the Braunschweig state parliament in the state elections on December 22, 1918. Between 1919 and May 1921 he was a member of the city ​​council in Braunschweig. From 1922 to 1924 he was vice president of the state parliament and parliamentary group chairman of the DDP. In the elections of December 7, 1924, the DDP only won two seats. The previous school minister Heinrich Rönneburg received a mandate, but he moved to Berlin as a member of the Reichstag and took over his seat in the Regensburg state parliament on July 1, 1925. He resigned his mandate on March 18, 1926 for health reasons.

Legal activity

After his admission as a lawyer, Regensburger ran his first office at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz 5 from July 1912. From January 1913 he ran the law firm at Bohlweg 64/65 and moved to Lippoldsche Haus at Bohlweg 14 in the early 1920s. He was one of the most prominent lawyers of his time. In the process of the Guelph ducal house against the Free State of Braunschweig , represented by Regensburg, the issue between 1921 and 1925 was a settlement for the ducal domains and goods expropriated by the Braunschweig revolutionary government on November 10, 1918. In October 1925 a settlement was reached.

family

Regensburger had been married to the librarian Resi, geb. Oppenheimer (1897–1996), daughter of the Hildesheim judiciary and Jewish community leader Alexander Oppenheimer. After her husband's suicide, she lived with her children in Nice and Marienbad for several months, moved to Berlin in October 1934 and emigrated to England in July 1939. The son Curt Moritz, born in 1925, reached England in March 1939 on a Kindertransport. He changed his name to Charles Maurice Regan in 1944 and served as a civil servant in England. The daughter Gerta Ruth Regensburger, born in 1928, emigrated to Belgium in the spring of 1939 and to England in August that year, where she later worked as a teacher.

Fonts (selection)

  • Samson Cohn - Christian Religion. Eine Metamorphose , Berlin: Lamm 1908 (under the name "Trebron"; proof and resolution of the acronym in: Wegweiser für die Jugendliteratur 5.1909, No. 6, p. 52)
  • The obligation to make corrections under the press law <§§ 11 and 19 Paragraph 1 Item 3, Paragraph 2 of the Reich Law on the Press of May 7, 1874> , Rostock, Jur. Diss., 1911

literature

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Bein: Eternal House. Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. Braunschweig 2004, p. 81.
  2. ↑ Burkhard Schmidt: The Duke Trial: a report on the trial of the Guelph ducal house against the Free State of Braunschweig for the chamber property (1921/25) . Wolfenbüttel: Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein, 1996, ISBN 3-928009-10-9
personal data
SURNAME Regensburg, Norbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Regensburger, Nathan Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1933
Place of death Braunschweig