Sigmund von Henle

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Sigmund von Henle

Sigmund Henle , from 1882 Ritter von Henle , (also Siegmund Henle ; born June 30, 1821 in Munich , † October 9, 1901 there ) was a German lawyer and Bavarian politician.

Life

Henle came from a wealthy Jewish court factor family , was the son of a large merchant and Thérèse Ottenheimer and a grandson of Elkan Henle (1761–1833) in Fürth, a pioneer of Jewish emancipation .

In 1838 he graduated from (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich with the Abitur. He studied law and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1841 he was reciprocated in the Corps Bavaria Munich .

In 1845, Henle was with his dissertation De jure quoad embryones (FS Publishing Hübschmann, 1845) at Munich University doctorate . Then he was 1846-1870 correspondent in Augsburg appearing Allgemeine Zeitung .

He was a royal Bavarian Privy Councilor , a lawyer in Munich, as well as a Crown Attorney and Syndic of the Crown of Bavaria . In the Secundo Genitur process, the dispute over the legacy of the Greek King Otto , Henle represented the Bavarian Prince Otto . Henle was a close confidante and advisor to Duke Max Joseph in Bavaria , the father of Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary (Sisi) , until his death (1888 ).

From 1871 he was a National Liberal member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bavarian Estates Assembly for the constituency of Munich I for ten years , which was the first time that Catholic Munich was represented by a Jew in parliament. There he played a major role as a parliamentary speaker, but also had to listen to anti-Semitic lewdness from his political opponents.

In 1873 he succeeded in having his son Heinrich - from his marriage in 1850 - accepted as the first Jewish pupil in the cadet corps . After the end of his membership in parliament, he was raised - together with his brother Jakob - in 1882 by the Bavarian King Ludwig II. With the award of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown to the Bavarian personal nobility as Knight of Henle . Henle was a member of the supervisory board of Schwandorfer Tonwarenfabrik until his death (1901) .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Her sister was the poet Henriette Ottenheimer .
  2. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. 4 vols., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 4, p. 139.
  3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 170 , 407.
  4. ↑ Monika Richarz: The entry of Jews into academic professions , 1974, p. 116, fn. 118.
  5. ↑ Werner Funk: The constitutional question in the mirror of the Augsburger "Allgemeine Zeitung" from 1818-1848. Schweitzer, 1977, p. 184.
  6. ↑ Hans Lamm: From Jews in Munich. Ner Tamid, 1958, p. 67.
  7. ↑ Marcus Pyka: Becoming a metropolitan community (1848-1892). In: Richard Bauer , Michael Brenner : Jewish Munich. From the Middle Ages to the present. Beck, Munich 2006, pp. 89–109, here p. 104.
  8. ↑ Some sources mention the year 1873.
  9. ^ Ernest Hamburger : Jews in public life in Germany. Mohr Siebeck, 1968, p. 255.
  10. ↑ Frank Nägler: German Jewish soldiers. From the epoch of emancipation to the age of the world wars. Exhibition by the Military History Research Office in cooperation with the Moses Mendelssohn Center Potsdam and the Centrum Judaicum Berlin. Mittler, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3813205258 , p. 75.
  11. ^ Jacob Toury: The political orientations of the Jews in Germany. Mohr, 1966, p. 197 ; El sitio de la Collectividad Judia .
personal data
SURNAME Henle, Sigmund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henle, Sigmund Ritter von (full name); Henle Siegmund von; Henle, Siegmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Bavarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1901
Place of death Munich