Moritz Baerwald

Moritz Baerwald (3 December 1860 – 26 December 1919) was a German lawyer and politician of the German Democratic Party, a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the Weimar National Assembly.

Moritz Baerwald
Member of the town council of Bromberg
In office
1912–1918
Member of the Prussian House of Representatives
In office
1902–1918
ConstituencyBromberg 5 (Mogilno – Wongrowitz – Znin)
Member of the Weimar National Assembly
In office
1919–1919
Personal details
Born(1860-12-03)3 December 1860
Thorn, West Prussia, Prussia (Toruń, Poland)
Died26 December 1919(1919-12-26) (aged 59)
Berlin, Weimar Germany
Political partyGerman Democratic Party (DDP)
Occupationlawyer

Baerwald was born in Thorn, West Prussia (Toruń, Poland), where he grew up and passed his Abitur. He studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg, Leipzig and Berlin and started to practise as a lawyer in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz, Poland) in 1887 (notary since 1908).[1]

Baerwald became an active member of the Jewish community of Bromberg and, in 1902, a member of the executive board of the Chamber of Advocates of Posen (Poznań, Poland). In 1903 Baerwald was elected a member of the town council of Bromberg and represented the constituency of Bromberg 5 (Mogilno – Wongrowitz – Znin) in the Prussian House of Representatives from 1912 to 1918.[2] Following World War I he became a member of the Weimar National Assembly, where he vehemently opposed the incorporation of the Province of Posen into the Second Polish Republic.[3][4][5]

Baerwald died in December 1919, within the legislative session, in Berlin and was buried at the Weißensee cemetery.[6]

References
  1. "Reichstags Abgeordnetendatenbank" (in German).
  2. Kühne, Thomas (1994). Handbuch der Wahlen zum Preußischen Abgeordnetenhaus 1867–1918. Wahlergebnisse, Wahlbündnisse und Wahlkandidaten. Handbücher zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, Band 6 (in German). Düsseldorf: Droste. pp. 305–309. ISBN 3-7700-5182-3.
  3. Walk, Joseph (1988). Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945 (in German). Jerusalem: Leo Baeck Institute. p. 18. ISBN 3-598-10477-4.
  4. Schumacher, Martin; Lübbe, Katahrina; Schröder, Wilhelm Heinz (1994). M.d.R. , die Reichstagsabgeordneten der Weimarer Republik in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus (in German). Droste. p. 17. ISBN 978-3-77005183-0.
  5. Frackowiak, Johannes; Schmeitzner, Mike (2013). Nationalistische Politik und Ressentiments – Deutsche und Polen von 1871 bis zur Gegenwart (in German). Göttingen: Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung. p. 95. ISBN 978-3-8471-0152-9.
  6. "obituary" (in German). Berlin. 1919.


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