Stein, Baron Karl vom und Zum°
STEIN, BARON KARL VOM UND ZUM°
STEIN, BARON KARL VOM UND ZUM ° (1757–1831), German statesman and patriot. Stein opposed the political emancipation granted to Jews during and after the French Revolution, even though his own ordinance of Prussian municipal government of 1808 had granted them municipal citizenship. Numerous antisemitic statements of his have been recorded, especially those he made against the patrician banking families of Berlin. When Frankfurt on the Main was freed from French rule in 1813, Stein, plenipotentiary for all conquered territories, refused to intervene on behalf of the Jewish community which was in danger of losing its rights. Under his sponsorship the Westphalian estates of 1827 proposed a series of restrictive measures against the "harmful" Jewish population.
bibliography:
I. Freund, Die Emanzipation der Juden in Preussen, 1 (1912), 104ff.; M.J. Kohler, Jewish Rights at the Congresses of Vienna and Aix-La-Chapelle (1918), 6, 36–38; S. Baron, Die Judenfrage auf dem Wiener Kongress (1920), 33f., 185.