Legacy
When the civil rights of the "Paulskirchenverfassung" (Paulskirche constitution) came into effect in Hamburg on 21 February 1849, Riesser was able to become citizen of Hamburg, a rare and dear franchise at that time, which the bulk of the inhabitants did not hold. In 1859 the city appointed him "Obergerichtsrat" (chief judge at the supreme state court). He was the first Jewish judge in Germany. In 1861 the Bürgerschaft of Hamburg (city-state parliament) elected Isaac Wolffson, Riesser's colleague and partisan in the struggle for Jewish emancipation, its president, becoming the first Jewish president of a German parliament.
Riesser was buried at the Jewish Grindel cemetery in Hamburg. When the Nazis ordered its demolition in 1937, the Ashkenazi Congregation transferred the graves, including his, to the Jewish section of Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg.
There is a street named after Riesser In Hamburg-Hamm.
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