Heinrich Joseph Horwitz
German politician, lawyer, notary and author
About Heinrich Joseph Horwitz
Lived 1824 – 1899 (aged 75). Heinrich Joseph Horwitz was a German politician, lawyer, notary and author.
Heinrich Joseph Horwitz (28 April 1824 – 17 November 1899) was a German lawyer and liberal politician.
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.
Horwitz died in Berlin in 1899.
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German politician, lawyer, notary and author (1824-1899)
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Heinrich Joseph Horwitz was born on 28 April 1824 in Puck.
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Heinrich Joseph Horwitz died on 17 November 1899 in Berlin.
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Heinrich Joseph Horwitz was a politician, lawyer, notary and author.
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Heinrich Joseph Horwitz was German.
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