FRANKENBURGER, WOLF

FRANKENBURGER, WOLF (1827–1889), lawyer and politician in Germany. Born at Obbach in Bavaria and educated in Wuerzburg, where he took an active part in the 1848 agitation. He settled in Nuremberg in 1861 to practice law. Frankenburger was first elected to the Bavarian diet in 1869 and remained a member until the end of his life. From 1874 to 1878 he was also the representative for Nuremberg in the German Reichstag. The first motion he proposed in the assembly was for freedom of the press and freedom of sale of literature. Frankenburger managed to obtain the abolition of the Jewish taxes then still in force in Bavaria and also obtained a salary increase for the poorly endowed rabbinical posts. Frankenburger was an eloquent advocate of the union of Bavaria with the German Empire and received from the Bavarian king the Class 1 Michaelisorden for his activities. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: A. Eckstein, Beitraege zur Geschichte der Juden in Bayern – Die bayerischen Parlamentarier juedischen Glaubens (1902), 23–33; E. Hamburger, Juden im oeffentlichen Leben Deutschlands (1968). ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: P. Müller, Liberalismus in Nürnberg 1800–1871– Eine Fallstudie zur Ideen-und Sozialgeschichte des Liberalismus in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert (1990). (B. Mordechai Ansbacher / Bjoern Siegel (2nd ed.)