Felix Waldstein

David Felix Waldstein (10 January 1865 – 8 December 1943) was a German lawyer and liberal politician, a member of the Prussian and German parliament and the Weimar National Assembly.

Felix Waldstein
Member of the Prussian House of Representatives
In office
1908–1918
ConstituencyAltona
Member of the Reichstag (German Empire)
In office
1912–1918
ConstituencySchleswig - Eckernförde
Member of the Weimar National Assembly
In office
1919–1920
Member of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
In office
1920 – February 1921
Personal details
Born(1865-01-10)10 January 1865
Gnesen, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (Gniezno, Poland)
Died8 December 1943(1943-12-08) (aged 78)
London, United Kingdom
Political partyFree-minded Union
Progressive People's Party (Germany)
German Democratic Party (DDP)
ChildrenMargret Rey
Occupationlawyer

Waldstein was born in Gnesen, Prussian Province of Posen (Gniezno, Poland), after passing his Abitur in Gnesen he studied law and economics at the Humboldt University Berlin. Waldstein started to work as a lawyer in Altona in 1890 and as notary in 1901. He was elected as a member of the Prussian House of Representatives in 1908 and a member of the German Reichstag in 1912.

In 1919 Waldstein became a member of the Weimar National Assembly and member of the executive board of the German Democratic Party, he remained in the Weimar German Reichstag until February 1921. Waldstein was a member of the national executive board and chairman of the Hamburg section of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (CV). He headed the Centralverein in North-West Germany until 1934.[1]

In 1939 Waldstein emigrated to the United Kingdom and died in London in 1943.[2]

References
  1. Röder, Werner; Strauss, Herbert A. (1999). Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933, Bd. 1 (in German). Munich: K.G.Saur. ISBN 3-598-11420-6.
  2. Vierhaus, Rudolf (2008). biography (in German). Munich: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, Bd. 10. p. 378. ISBN 978-3-598-25040-8.
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