Maurycy Allerhand

Maurycy (Moses) Allerhand ( born June 28, 1868 in Rzeszów, † August 1942 in the Belzec extermination camp ) was a Polish lawyer and professor at the Law Faculty of the University Lvov.

Life

He came from a wealthy Jewish family of the lower nobility. After graduating from high school in Rzeszow, he began studying at the University of Vienna. At this university he was awarded a doctorate in law in 1892. After that he went to Lviv ( Lvov today ), where he worked as a lawyer and in 1900 founded his own law firm. In addition to his law practice, he has published numerous articles, essays and legal monographs in Polish and foreign journals. His habilitation title in the field of trial, he was awarded in 1909 at the University of Lviv after his habilitation thesis "List in the trial ." He wrote many of his works, among others also in German language. In 1917 he was appointed associate and full professors in 1922.

On August 22, 1919, he was appointed member of the Commission on the codification of the Polish Law and 1922 as a member of the Constitutional Court. In 1929 he was chairman of the Jewish community. He remained aloof from politics and was for the full assimilation of Poland and Polish nation. At the same time he continued his law practice and worked scientifically by he lectured on law enforcement, voluntary jurisdiction, tender law, history and organization of the judiciary, the legal profession and the notary's office, as well as aviation insurance law. Until 1933 he was Head of the Department of trade and exchange law. He often invited young people to seminars in his study at the university. Among these people were some lawyers who later became known as Karol Koranyi, Kazimierz Przybyłowski Jerzy Sawicki and Stefan Rozmaryn - Kwieciński. 1932-1933 he published a two-part commentary on the Code of Civil Procedure, 1935 a commentary on commercial law and in 1937 a commentary on the bankruptcy law. After the invasion of the Red Army in Lviv and the reorganization of the University, he lectured at the Faculty of Law.

After the German attack on the Soviet Union and the invasion of the Wehrmacht in Lviv on June 30, 1941, he refused to become chairman of the Jewish Council. He was dismissed from the university and brought into the ghetto with his family. He was then deported with his family to the Belzec extermination camp, where he was murdered in August 1942. His son Joachim and his grandchild Leszek and his daughter who survived the Holocaust.

The Diary

Later, it was the Lvov ghetto diary, had written the Allerhand in the ghetto of Lviv. It was published by his grandson in Poland in 2003.