Robert Friedberg

Robert Friedberg (born June 28, 1851 in Berlin ; † June 20, 1920 ibid) was a German economist and politician .

Life

Robert Friedberg, son of a factory owner, studied law and political science in Berlin , Heidelberg and Leipzig from 1871 to 1874 , where he received a private lecturer position for political science in 1877 . Friedberg converted from the Jewish to the Protestant faith in 1884 and became an associate professor at the University of Leipzig in 1885 and a full professor at the University of Halle in 1894 .

Friedberg pursued his academic activity on the side; primarily he saw himself as a professional parliamentarian. For the National Liberals he was a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1886 to 1918 , where he initially represented the constituency of Merseburg 4 (Saalkreis, city of Halle an der Saale) as a member and from 1904 the constituency of Düsseldorf 1 (Remscheid - Solingen). From 1893 to 1898 he was also a member of the Reichstag as a member of the constituency of Anhalt 2 (Bernburg) . On September 4, 1894, Friedberg resigned his mandate in the Reichstag, but stood again in the replacement election as a candidate for a coalition of national liberals, representatives of the Federation of Farmers and the Conservatives and represented the constituency in the Reichstag until the end of the legislative period in 1898.

In 1906, the expert on economic and tax issues took over the chairmanship of the national liberal parliamentary group in Prussia , in 1917 he became deputy prime minister under Hertling as a representative of the parties ; the reform of the Prussian three-class electoral system , which he was preparing far too late, could only be implemented in 1918 due to numerous opposition, under the impression of the defeat in the war.

After the November Revolution, Friedberg, who was on the right wing of the National Liberals, surprisingly joined with parts of this party in the German Democratic Party (DDP), which had emerged from left-wing liberalism , and thus thwarted, albeit ultimately unsuccessfully, the attempts of Gustav Stresemann , the National Liberal Party to continue as the German People's Party . From 1919 to 1920 Friedberg led the DDP parliamentary group in the Prussian state parliament.

The wall grave of Robert Friedberg in Berlin-Westend

He was married to Thekla Friedberg (1860-1924) and had a daughter, Charlotte Garnich (1881-1939).

Robert Friedberg died just eight days before his 69th birthday on June 20, 1920 in Berlin. His tomb is located in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin-Westend . The sculptor Hans Dammann designed an antique wall grave made of shell limestone with a pillar aedicule that holds a pedestal with an urn. The inscriptions on the pedestal are made with bronze letters.

literature

Otto Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode : Friedberg, Robert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 445 f. ( Digitized version ).
Ernest Hamburger : Jews in public life in Germany: members of the government, civil servants and parliamentarians in the monarchical era. 1848-1918 . Mohr, Tübingen 1968, pp. 350-355
Eberhard Kolb , Ludwig Richter: Introduction. In this. (Editor): National liberalism in the Weimar Republic. The governing bodies of the German People's Party 1918–1933. Vol. 1. Droste, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 978-3-7700-5219-6 , pp. 9 * -29 *.

Web links

Literature by and about Robert Friedberg in the catalog of the German National Library
Robert Friedberg in the database of members of the Reichstag
Robert Friedberg's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Overview of Robert Friedberg's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1877 to winter semester 1884)

Individual evidence

↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration by Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 136; for the election results in the individual constituencies see Thomas Kühne : Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , p. 842.
^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe : The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1907. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd edition supplemented by an appendix. Addendum. The Reichstag election of 1907 (12th legislative period). Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1908, p. 286; see also Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1451-1455.
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 473.

personal data
SURNAME	Friedberg, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist and politician (NLP, DDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	June 28, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	June 20, 1920
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration by Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 136; for the election results in the individual constituencies see Thomas Kühne : Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , p. 842.

[2] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe : The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1907. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd edition supplemented by an appendix. Addendum. The Reichstag election of 1907 (12th legislative period). Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1908, p. 286; see also Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1451-1455.

[3] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 473.