BUKOVINIAN ELITES: MAXIMILIAN HACMAN (1877-1961). STEPS TO A BIOGRAPHY
BUKOVINIAN ELITES: MAXIMILIAN HACMAN (1877-1961). STEPS TO A BIOGRAPHY

Summary/Abstract: Born in Bukovina, in August 1877, then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, Maximilian Hacman was a Romanian jurist, University professor and specialist in commercial law. He remained for most people known for his role in the union of Bukovina with Romania in 1918. But there are some episodes of his life that remained unknown for years. He studied at the Law Faculty in Chernivtsi University. He became a political activist during the Austrian rules in Bukovina and had an important role in autumn 1918 in Romanian national program. He voted the Bukovina’s union of Romania and was involved in efforts to join the region with Kingdom of Romania. In 20’s years was involved in “the Romanianization’s” process of University from Chernivtsi. In these years he became a Romanian nationalist but was disspointed with the Romanian political realities. Despite the fact that was involved in elimination of german professor from Chernivtsi University was attracted to German realities after 1933. In 30’s as an admirer of German order, he published a lot of studies about German law. After June 1940 he moved to Bucharest. Hacman's intellectual and ideological affinities, recommended him, in 1940, for the position of secretary of the newly established Romanian Institute, in the capital of the Nazi Germany. After war he withdrew from public life and died in Turda, in 1961. Its destiny is similar to that of the other member of elite of Bukovina.

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