Heinrich Marx

Heinrich Marx (originally Heschel Marx Levi Mordechai ) ( born April 15, 1777 Saarlouis, † May 10, 1838 in Trier ) was a Prussian lawyer - lawyer and since October 15, 1831 Judicial Council. He was the father of the philosopher Karl Marx.

Life

His parents were ( called Marx Levy, * 1743 in the Bohemian Postelberg, † October 24, 1804 in Trier ) Trier Rabbi Mordechai and Chaje Levoff ( 1754-1823 ), the daughter of the Trier Rabbi (since 1764) Moses Lwów ( † 5 August 1788 ). Heschel's paternal grandfather was Samuel Mordecai and great-grandfather Mordechai Marx. The father was from 1788, after the death of the father, Rabbi in Trier.

Heschel's older brother Samuel followed his father after his death as a chief rabbi in Trier.

Heschel was first secretary of the Jewish Consistory in Trier. As a result of the Napoleonic laws led the family since the October 4, 1808 the family name Marx ( before Marx Levy ).

In October 1810, he began his legal studies in Berlin. 1811/12 he worked as a sworn translator at the court authorities in Osnabrück. He is also the briefly existing Masonic Lodge L' Etoile anséatique joined ( The Hanseatic Star). At the latest at this time he took the name Henry or Heinrich. From 1813 he sat in Koblenz at the Ecole de Droit his studies, which he completed with the Brevet de capacité (Diploma). In January 1814, he settled as Avoue in Trier.

On 21 November 1814 marriage contract was concluded and on 22 November he married in a civil ceremony in Nijmegen Henriette Presburg. His father was a rabbi in Trier from 1788. Her father was a cantor of the Jewish community and their great-great- grandparents were Simon Presburg and Hanna, daughter of Meir Menzeles. His brother in law was Lion Philips.

After Trier as a result of the Congress of Vienna was Prussian, and he was tried in 1816 by a decree of the Prussian Minister of Justice with the alternative of abandoning his profession or to be baptized, he was baptized by the evangelical Division preacher Mühlenhoff 1819-1821. His children and his wife were baptized until 1824 or 1825.

From 1816, he led the designation lawyer ( attorney with limited powers) and 1820 lawyer attorney. He was long Bâtonnier ( head of Trier advocacy ) and in 1831 the title of the Judicial Council. Of crucial importance was the suum cuique for him. He called general laws against usury. Politically, he expressed the need for a representation of the people.

Sibling

  • Samuel Marx ( rabbi )
  • Esther Marx ( * 1786 in Trier † July 16, 1865 in Frankfurt am Main ) married since 1810 with Gabriel Kosel (* 1780 in Schnaittach † February 7, 1857 in Frankfurt am Main ) Businessman
  • Moises Marx ( * 1788 in Trier † March 13, 1808 in Trier ) students
  • Babette Marx ( * 1789 in Trier † June 7, 1875 in Trier ) married since 1813 with Alexandre Blum ( * September 1782 Dürmenach † 1862 Algiers ) Businessman
  • Cerf ( Deer ) Marx ( * 1790 in Trier), watchmaker married since 1820 with Medex Henrietta (* 1796 in Eijsden )
  • Golem (* September 1798 in Trier † August 22, 1799 in Trier )
  • James Marx ( born June 16, 1800 Trier † January 6, 1850 in Schlettstadt ) Businessman married since 1827 with Rosenblum and related products. Scriber (* 1790 in Epfig at Schlettstadt - † August 20, 1862 in Schlettstadt )

Children

  • Mauritz David Marx (1815-1819)
  • Sophia Marx (1816-1866) married to Willem Robert Schmalhausen (1817-1862)
  • Karl Marx
  • Hermann (1819-1842)
  • Henriette Marx (1820-1845) married to Theodore Simon (1813-1863)
  • Louise (1821-1893) married with Jan Carel Juta (1824-1886)
  • Emilie married to Johann Jacob Conradi (1821-1892)
  • Caroline Marx (1824-1847)
  • Edward Marx (1826-1837)

Publications

  • Some remarks on the Napoleonic decree of March 17, 1808 on the occasion of the happy union of our country with the Royal Prussian monarchy; printed in Adolf Kober: Karl Marx's father and the Napoleonic exceptional law against the Jews in 1808
  • About the value of the commercial courts in the Royal. Prussian Rhine provinces; In: Niederrheinisches Archives for Legislation and Jurisprudence and judicial administration; I Battalion, Cologne 1817, pp. 7 ff (recently in the Archives of Social History Bd.8, 1968, 277 ff -line)
  • Speech in honor of the Landtag deputies on 13 January 1834 printed at Heinz Monz: Karl Marx - basics of developing life and work; Trier 1973, p 134
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