Victor Heymann

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Victor Heymann (born April 2, 1842 in Braunschweig ; died November 22, 1926 there ) was a German lawyer. In 1908 he became the first Jewish notary in the Duchy of Braunschweig .

Life

The only son of the banker Daniel Heymann (1800–1885) and his wife Rebecka Bertha, b. Oppenheimer (1816–1848) became a lawyer in 1867 and a judiciary in 1892. In 1908 he was the first Jewish lawyer in the Duchy of Braunschweig to be granted the notary's office by the regent Johann Albrecht . From 1875 to 1890 Heymann was a city councilor and from 1889 to 1919 unpaid city councilor. In the city council, he successfully campaigned for the reconstruction of Dankwarderode Castle , which finally took place from 1887 onwards, despite opposition from many sides . Heymann worked as a lawyer until 1923. He was chairman of the bar association for the state of Braunschweig.

Heymann died in Braunschweig in 1926. In an obituary he was described as the oldest still active lawyer in Germany . His grave is in the New Jewish Cemetery on Helmstedter Strasse in Braunschweig.

family

Heymann was with Pauline, geb. Ramdohr , a Christian, married. She died in 1874, giving birth to her son and later higher regional judge Rudolf († 1947), who was baptized as a Christian. His second wife was the Hamburg banker's daughter Adele, born in 1853. Jonas, who died in Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943 . The daughter Bertha (1884–1942) became a painter, was banned from exhibiting and painting at the time of National Socialism and died in a concentration camp in the east. Heymann was a cousin of the important entrepreneur Max Jüdel .

literature

  • Reinhard Bein : Eternal House - Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig . Döringdruck, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-925268-24-3 .
  • Dieter Miosge : Victor Heymann (1842–1926) - President of the Bar Association from 1920–1924. in: Edgar Isermann, Michael Schlüter (Ed.): Justice and Lawyers in Braunschweig 1879–2004: 125 years of the Higher Regional Court and the Braunschweig Bar Association. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-926701-62-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Bein: Eternal House Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. Braunschweig 2004, p. 221.
  2. ^ Ingeborg Bloth: German Art 1933-1945 in Braunschweig. Braunschweig 2000, p. 90.
personal data
SURNAME Heymann, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heymann, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1926
Place of death Braunschweig