Siegfried Mühsam
Siegfried Seligmann Mühsam (born September 2, 1838 in Landsberg (Upper Silesia) , † July 20, 1915 in Lübeck ) was a pharmacist and chemist .
Life
career
Siegfried Mühsam was the second child of Moritz Mühsam and Charlotte, nee Schweitzer. He attended high school in Opole and, after several internships in pharmacies, studied pharmacy at the University of Königsberg . In May 1866 he received his license to practice medicine .
In 1879 he came to Lübeck. When the suburb of St. Lorenz was not yet heavily developed, he erected a stately pharmacy building on the corner of Moislinger Allee , in which he worked for many years as the first pharmacist to be granted a license for a suburb . As a court chemist, he devoted himself to laboratory work . He worked for many years as a pharmacy auditor .
He was a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities and as a Freemason he belonged to the Lodge Zur Weltkugel , which had its lodge house at Mengstrasse 7-11 .
He was one of the founders of the St. Lorenz Association, in which he was both a member and board member for almost 30 years.
Siegfried Mühsam was elected to the Lübeck citizenship in 1887 as one of the first members of the Jewish community and belonged to it until his death. He was one of the regular speakers of the citizenship and knew how to impress with his conscientiousness and objectivity. It was not important to him to let confessional or religious matters come to the fore when he intervened in public . It was only the welfare of the community at heart.
He was re-elected for five terms with a large majority . Laboriously retired due to force majeure in his 28th year, which, as was emphasized in the obituaries, almost equaled a generation, his term of office , which actually only ended in 1917 .
During those years, between 1888 and 1910, he was a regular member of the citizens' committee, observing the prescribed constitutional breaks . He participated in all the important commissions and had a particularly deep insight into tax and financial issues with regard to the conditions in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . As a result, he was a long-standing member of the tax authorities and the appraisal commission for income and land .
From 1905 to 1911 he was a member of the board of directors of the Museum of Commerce, from 1894 to 1896 that of the St. Lorenz women's association and for several years that of the Israelite old people's home .
He had created a permanent memorial for himself by founding the Christmas Fund. From its interest, the needy in the suburbs were given a Christmas gift every year.
family
After he had published a critical article in the Lübecker Volksbote , he had to take his son, the later anarchist and writer Erich Mühsam , from the Katharineum . His daughter Charlotte (1881–1972), later married. Landau, was from 1919–1921 a member of the DDP's citizenship . She emigrated to Haifa with her husband in April 1933 .
Works
- Pharmacy Manual: Instructions for the manufacture of preparations commonly used in pharmacies, Volume 11 n, which have not been included in the Pharmacopoea Germanica, Editio altera. 2., presumably u. improve Leipzig: Denicke 1885.
- Digitized copy of the TU Braunschweig copy
- The Killebergers: taken from nature / by Uncle Siegfried. Leipzig: Kaufmann 1910 (5th edition 1927).
- History of the name Mühsam: according to official documents and oral tradition. Family Chronicle. 2nd edition Lübeck: Werner & Hörnig 1912.
References
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- Lübeckische Blätter : Vol. 57, No. 30, edition of July 25, 1915, article: Siegfried Mühsam †.
- Lübeck advertisements ; Volume 165, Abendblatt No. 366, edition of July 21, 1915, obituary: Siegfried Mühsam †.
- City Papers ; No. 43, edition of July 25, 1915, article: Siegfried Mühsam †.
- From Lübeck's towers ; Vol. 25, No. 31, edition of July 31, 1915, article: Siegfried Mühsam †.
- Christoph Hamann: Die Mühsams - History of a Family, Jewish Memoirs, Berlin 2005, Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag Berlin, ISBN 978-3-938485-00-2 .
Archives
- City archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lübeckische Blätter: Vol. 54, No. 42, edition of October 15, 1905, article: The vote of the citizens in the theater question .
- ↑ Lübeckische Blätter: Vol. 54, No. 49, edition of December 3, 1905, article: Society for the promotion of charitable activities.
- ↑ Albrecht Schreiber: Guide through the history of the Jews in Moisling and Lübeck. Lübecker Nachrichten GmbH, Lübeck 1984, p. 67f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Difficult, Siegfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Difficult, Siegfried Seligmann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist, chemist, member of the citizenship |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landsberg (Upper Silesia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1915 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |