# Max Alsberg

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**Max Alsberg** (16 October 1877 – 11 September 1933) was a famous [criminal lawyer](/source/Criminal_defense_lawyer) of the [Weimar Republic](/source/Weimar_Republic).

Alsberg worked primarily as a [criminal defense lawyer](/source/Criminal_defense_lawyer); he defended [Karl Helfferich](/source/Karl_Helfferich) in 1920 and [Carl von Ossietzky](/source/Carl_von_Ossietzky) in 1931. He also wrote plays (*Voruntersuchung* in 1927, and *Konflikt*). His best known contribution to legal science is the handbook *Der Beweisantrag im Strafprozess*.

Max Alsberg committed suicide by gunshot on 11 September 1933.[1]

## References

1. [Stephen Youngkin, *The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre*](https://books.google.com/books?id=TgmVH7aaOtEC&pg=PA86)

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