Paul Eltzbacher

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Paul Eltzbacher (born February 18, 1868 in Cologne , † October 25, 1928 in Berlin ) was a German professor of law.

Life

His Jewish family came from northern Bavaria. She had moved to Westphalia at the end of the 18th century, where she did money trading and founded the JL Eltzbacher & Co. bank in Cologne. Paul Eltzbacher's father Salomon was a doctor. Paul's brother Otto Julius (1870–1948) emigrated to England around the turn of the century and took the name J. Ellis Barker , under whom he wrote numerous historical books and later became a well-known homeopath .

Paul Eltzbacher studied law in Leipzig , Heidelberg , Strasbourg and Göttingen .

1890–1895 he was a junior lawyer in the judicial district of Cologne and Frankfurt, where he did his military service in 1891/92. In 1900 he received his doctorate and published a treatise on the various currents of anarchism , which was soon translated into several languages . At a time when it was common practice among politicians and journalists to conjure up "anarchist danger", he pursued scientific studies of the history of ideas on anarchism. Until 1912 he was in contact with representatives of the international anarchist movement, such as Pjotr ​​Kropotkin , Benjamin Tucker and Gustav Landauer .

From 1900 Eltzbacher was a private lecturer at the University of Halle and from 1906 a full professor of law at the newly founded Berlin School of Commerce .

Before the outbreak of World War I he became a member of the German National People's Party . During the war he published numerous patriotic writings. After the defeat of Germany, Eltzbacher became one of the "prophets" of so-called national Bolshevism .

Eltzbacher's private library is now located as a special collection in the Ōhara Research Institute for Social Problems (Ōhara Shakai Mondai Kenkyūjo) of the Hōsei Daigaku, it comprises 1,150 works (books and brochures) and 103 journals with special consideration of anarchism between around 1830 and 1920.

Fonts (selection)

  • On legal terms , 1900 (dissertation)
  • Anarchism ; 1900 (Reprints 1977, 1987; Translations: Spanish 1901, French 1902, Dutch 1903, Russian 1906, English 1908, Yiddish 1909, Japanese 1921, Italian sd)
  • The ability to act according to German civil law ; 1903
  • German nutrition and the English plan of starvation ; 1914
  • Dead and living international law ; 1916
  • The press as a tool of foreign policy ; 1918
  • Bolshevism and the German Future ; 1919
  • The new parties and their programs, a guide in the election campaign ; 1920
  • German commercial law ; 1925
  • From my family's story ; 1928
  • with Otto Wille Kuusinen , Alexander von Senger : Critical writings on Bolshevism

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Eltzbacher Papers . Short biography in the IISG . (English)
  2. ↑ See Louis Dupeux : National Bolshevism in Germany 1919–1933. CH Beck, Munich 1985, pp. 53-68, 419-431
personal data
SURNAME Eltzbacher, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1928
Place of death Berlin