Wilhelm Salomon friend

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Grave of Wilhelm Salomon Freund in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Wroclaw

Wilhelm Salomon Freund (born September 28, 1831 in Schmiegel ; died August 26, 1915 in Breslau ) was a German lawyer, head of the city ​​council , member of the state parliament and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Freund studied law in Wroclaw and worked there as a lawyer since 1856. In 1871 he was elected to the city council and from 1887 until his death he was the city council chief. He was elected to the Silesian Bar Association and was its chairman for 30 years from 1884. He was an honorary citizen of the city of Wroclaw and an honorary doctorate from the law faculty.

He was also a member of the Silesian Provincial Parliament (he was elected to the Landtag in 1877) and from 1876 to 1879 a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . On February 21, 1879 he was elected in a by-election for the late MP Heinrich Bürgers in the German Reichstag for the constituency of Breslau 7 (Breslau western part) and the German Progressive Party. He remained its member until the end of the legislative period in 1881. Freund worked there on the lawyers 'code and the lawyers' fees as chairman of the relevant committees.

His son, the Münster pharmacologist Hermann Freund , was a victim of the Holocaust , the sons Walther and Rudolf were able to flee.

literature

  • Wilhelm Freund , in: Ernest Hamburger : Jews in public life in Germany: members of the government, civil servants and parliamentarians in the monarchical era. 1848-1918 . Tübingen: Mohr, 1968, pp. 284-298

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Neubach : Review of: Arno Herzig: Geschichte Schlesiens. From the Middle Ages to the present. CH Beck, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-406-67665-9 . In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015, pp. 300–306, here: p. 303.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 136 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 318-324.
  3. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1907. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd, supplemented edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1908, p. 70
personal data
SURNAME Freund, Wilhelm Salomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmiegel
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1915
Place of death Wroclaw