Paul Reiss

This article is about the lawyer Paul Reiss. For the psychiatrist see Paul Reiss .

Paul Reiss (born May 5, 1846 in Soden ; † July 3, 1926 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Frankfurt lawyer and patron .

Life

Paul Reiss was the youngest son of the successful Frankfurt merchant and patron Enoch Reiss (1802–1865). Paul Reiss studied law at the University of Göttingen from autumn 1865 . In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Hannovera and was active there for seven semesters. During this time, he made a name for himself beyond Göttingen as a so-called SC fencer with the extraordinary number of 56 determined qualifications.

He recorded his memories of his student days until 1869 in autobiographical form. With the death of his father, he received the Reiss house built by him in Bad Soden and continued the special promotion of the Taunus baths for the family as his father's successor. After the state examination and the doctorate to become a Dr. jur. settled down as a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main. Reiss became a Prussian judiciary and, like his father and later one of his sons, an honorary citizen of Bad Soden am Taunus. A street in Bad Soden is named after him.

He was married to Fanny Goedecke and had with her three sons, the professor of psychiatry Eduard Reiss (1878–1957), who emigrated to Switzerland in 1933 , the lawyers Adolf Reiss (1877–1962) and Carl Reiss (1880–1924), as well a daughter. All three sons also became members of the Corps Hannovera during their studies in Göttingen.

literature

• Franz Stadtmüller (Hrsg.): History of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen 1809-1959. Goettingen 1963.
• Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen. Volume 1: 1809-1899. Göttingen 2002, p. 214, No. 694.
• Erika Ullrich, Edith Vetter: Where Soden's spa guests stayed. Bad Soden 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2250-5 , pp. 137-140.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stadtmüller (1963), pp. 186–191.