Siegmund Fraenkel (businessman)

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Siegmund Fraenkel (born December 19, 1860 in Munich ; died September 30, 1925 there ) was a German Jewish businessman and politician .

Life

In Munich Fraenkel was an apprentice in an uncle's metal company and his father's wool wholesaler . Member since 1900, in 1909 he became Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Upper Bavaria . In the Reich Railroad Council , he was responsible for the transport and taxes department .

As chairman of Ohel Jakob , the Munich Synagogue Association of Orthodox Judaism , he enforced equal rights in the entire community in 1907 . He was elected chairman of the Jewish People's Party in 1921 and was one of the founders of the Bavarian community association. Fraenkel was close to Chancellor Georg von Hertling .

At the beginning of the Munich Soviet Republic , on April 6, 1919, Fraenkel wrote an open letter to Erich Mühsam , Otto Neurath , Ernst Toller and Gustav Landauer . Since the publishing house was occupied by Red Guards in the early hours of April 7, 1919 , the letter remained unprinted and unknown to the Munich population; but it is preserved. In it it says:

"We Munich Jews have remained silent in all the difficult, unfortunately filled weeks of the past, because you and other strangers, fantasists and dreamers who are ignorant of the Bavarian national character, take advantage of the bitter need and the mental depression of our people to recruit believers for their perhaps well-meaning but fateful ones and to advertise plans for a future economic and social order that are contrary to human nature (...). Today, when thousands and thousands of provocative, anti-Semitic leaflets were distributed in Munich's streets, clearly shows the magnitude of the danger that (...) threatens Judaism itself if the great mass of Munich's working population learned the sublime teachings and dogmas of the Jewish religion in an ideal connection with the Bolshevik and communist heresies (...). With your terror you are preventing the Bavarian Parliament from convening again, although you know that the realization of your fateful plans must lead to the danger of starvation for southern Bavaria, because our enemies are cutting off the supply of all food to a country that lacks a constitutional government (...). The same crowds that cheer your speeches and meetings today will curse you on the day they realize that you have brought them empty promises instead of bread and mutual hatred instead of the peace they long for. (...) the down-to-earth Bavarian Judaism calls out to you: Our hands are clean of the horrors of chaos and the misery and suffering that your policy must evoke over Bavaria's future development (...). "

- Siegmund Fraenkel

Honors

Works

  • The introduction of proportional representation in elections for the administrative bodies of the large Israelite communities . Verlag H. Itzkowski, Berlin 1911. GoogleBooks
  • "Exit game". Open letter from Kommerzienrat Sigmund Fraenkel in Munich to lawyer Dr. jur. Isaak Breuer in Frankfurt a. M. , 1914. GoogleBooks
  • The future structure of the Israelite church taxes in Bavaria . Verlag CH Beck , Munich 1914. GoogleBooks
  • The wool wholesale trade, its history and development . Berlin 1919. GoogleBooks

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia
  2. ^ Matthias Morgenstern: From Frankfurt to Jerusalem
  3. ↑ Ludwig Hümmert: Bavaria - from kingdom to dictatorship (1900-1933) . Pfaffenhofen 1979, pp. 117-119
  4. ^ Winfried Hofmann, Herbert Neupert , Heinz Schreck, Christian Theusner: History of the Corps Transrhenania 1866–1990 . Munich 1991, p. 143
personal data
SURNAME Fraenkel, Siegmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jewish merchant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1925
Place of death Munich