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 The Weimar National Assembly (German: ), officially the German National Constitutional Assembly (), was the popularly elected constitutional convention and de facto parliament of Germany from 6 February 1919 to 21 May 1920. As part of its ...

. Waldstein was born in

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(Gniezno, Poland), after passing his Abitur in Gnesen he studied law and economics at the

Humboldt University Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of ...

. 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 The Prussian House of Representatives (german: Preußisches Abgeordnetenhaus) was the lower chamber of the Landtag of Prussia (german: Preußischer Landtag), the parliament of Prussia from 1850 to 1918. Together with the upper house, the House of ...

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 The German Democratic Party (, or DDP) was a center-left liberal party in the Weimar Republic. Along with the German People's Party (, or DVP), it represented political liberalism in Germany between 1918 and 1933. It was formed in 1918 from the ...

, 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. In 1939 Waldstein emigrated to the

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and died in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

in 1943.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Waldstein, Felix 1865 births 1943 deaths People from Gniezno People from the Province of Posen Jewish German politicians German Free-minded Party politicians Progressive People's Party (Germany) politicians German Democratic Party politicians Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Members of the Prussian House of Representatives Members of the 13th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the Weimar National Assembly Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom