Wilhelm Cahn

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Wilhelm Cahn (born March 15, 1839 in Mainz , † August 10, 1920 in Berlin ) was a German philologist and Imperial Privy Legation Councilor and champion of the principle of expatriatio est delenda , with which he made a decisive contribution to the preservation of Germanism abroad.

Life

Cahn was the grandson of a reforming rabbi from Mainz.

After attending a grammar school in Mainz, Cahn studied oriental studies in Giessen , Würzburg and Heidelberg . In 1857 he became a member of the Germania Gießen fraternity , in 1858 a member of the Teutonia Würzburg fraternity and in 1860 he was a co-founder of the Arminia Würzburg fraternity . In 1860 he received his doctorate in Giessen as Dr. phil.

From 1863 to 1865 Cahn was private secretary at the Badische Legation in Paris and from 1865 to 1867 at the Saxon legation in Paris, then from 1868 to 1874 head of the office of the Bavarian legation in Paris. In this capacity he experienced the Franco-Prussian War , the siege and the time of the Paris Commune in Paris , which he describes in detail in his Paris commemorative papers .

In 1874 Cahn joined the Foreign Service of the German Reich and worked as a travel agent. In 1886 he was appointed Legation Councilor and Permanent Laborer , and in 1897 he was appointed Secret Legation Councilor. In 1901 he retired.

With Felix Bamberg, Cahn was one of the only Jews under Bismarck who were accepted into the service of the German Foreign Office .

Cahn wrote a standard commentary on German citizenship law in the German Empire .

Works (selection)

  • Reich and Citizenship Act of July 22, 1913. 4th edition, Berlin 1914 (Commentary on RuStAG from 1913; digitized in the Google book search)
  • The Reich Law on the Acquisition and Loss of Nationality and Nationality of June 1, 1870. Berlin 1889, 1896 and 1908 (preliminary editions of the commentary; digitized second, increased and improved edition )
  • Regulations on Legal Assistance Abroad , 1887
  • Paris commemorative sheets , two volumes, Berlin 1898
  • In besieged Paris 1870/1871. Diary entries by Wilhelm Cahn , Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1915

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft . Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 161-162 .
  • Cahn, Wilhelm. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 4: Brech-Carle. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-22684-5 , pp. 390-392.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ S. Winninger: Large Jewish National Biography , p. 488. Orient, Czernowitz 1925.
  2. ^ Ernest Hamburger: Jews in Public Life in Germany: Members of the Government, Officials and Parliamentarians in the Monarchical Period 1848–1918. Tübingen 1968, p. 35f.
personal data
SURNAME Cahn, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1920
Place of death Berlin