Heinrich Joseph Horwitz

Heinrich Joseph Horwitz (28 April 1824 – 17 November 1899) was a German lawyer and liberal politician.

Heinrich Joseph Horwitz
Prussian House of Representatives
In office
1877–1879
ConstituencyLiebenwerda, Torgau
Member of the Reichstag
In office
1883–1887
ConstituencyLiebenwerda
In office
1890–1893
ConstituencyMühlhausen
Personal details
Born(1824-04-28)28 April 1824
Putzig, Kingdom of Prussia (Puck, Poland)
Died17 November 1899(1899-11-17) (aged 75)
Berlin, Germany
Political partyNational Liberal Party
Liberal Union (Germany)
German Free-minded Party
Alma materHumboldt University
University of Heidelberg
Occupationlawyer

Biography

Horwitz was born in Putzig, Kingdom of Prussia (Puck, Poland), he was born to Jewish parents but later converted to Lutheranism. Horwitz started to study medicine at the University of Berlin but switched to law at the University of Heidelberg, he began to practise as a lawyer in Bad Liebenwerda in 1858 and in Grünberg (Zielona Góra) in 1862. In 1867 Horwitz moved to Berlin, where he became a town councillor in 1870. In 1877 he was elected a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and a member of the Reichstag from 1883 to 1887 and from 1890 to 1893. He represented the National Liberal Party, the Liberal Union (Germany) and the German Free-minded Party.[1]

Horwitz died in Berlin in 1899.[2][3]

References
  1. Parlamentarierportal (in German)
  2. Brocke, Michael; Heitmann, Margret; Lordick, Harald (2000). Zur Geschichte und Kultur der Juden in Ost- und Westpreußen (in German). Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute. p. 474. ISBN 3-487-11026-1.
  3. Hamburger, Ernest (1968). Juden im öffentlichen Leben Deutschlands (in German). Tübingen: Leo Baeck Institute. p. 300. ISBN 3168292923.
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