Bruno Karl August Jung

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Bruno Karl August Jung (born April 2, 1886 in Essen , † December 13, 1966 in Göttingen ) was a German politician ( DVP , NSDAP ).

Life

The son of a teacher attended the Burggymnasium in Essen and graduated from high school in 1904. Just turned 18 years old, he first began at the University in Leipzig and from 1906 to 1908 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster law to study.

During his studies he became a member of the Grimensia Leipzig Landsmannschaft in 1904 . He completed his legal traineeship in Essen, Steele and Hamm . In 1909 he received his doctorate in Erlangen .

In 1913 he became City Assessor and in 1918 State Councilor of the Provincial Administration of Westphalia . On October 26, 1932, he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Göttingen . On May 1, 1926, he became Lord Mayor of Göttingen and remained so until the end of his regular term of office on April 30, 1938, after which he became the department head for welfare in Hanover . From November 1929 to 1932 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Hanover for the DVP .

On December 20, 1937, Jung applied for admission to the NSDAP (No. 5898716); the official admission date is postponed to May 1, 1937. Between 1940 and 1941 he held a position as legal advisor at the Stalling publishing house in Oldenburg, which had been accentuated by nationalist law since the late 1920s . At the time of National Socialism, this publishing house published works by authors from the Nazi leadership, such as Joseph Goebbels and Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick . Bruno Jung and the publisher Heinrich Stalling were linked by a personal friendship.

This activity was followed by a post as district administrator in Esch-sur-Alzette from October 1941 to June 1944. As a representative of the civil administration at the district level, Jung was responsible for the illegal forced recruitment of young Luxembourg men into the Wehrmacht and forced service for young Luxembourg women in the German Reich. The official "announcement about the registration of the years 1920–1924 for military service in the Esch-Alzig district", published in the Escher Tageblatt on September 8, 1942, closes with the threat of punishment:

“Anyone who does not meet his reporting obligation or does not meet it on time will be ruthlessly (sic) punished. He has to face the heaviest punishment.
Esch-Alzig, September 3, 1942.
The District Administrator of the Esch-Alzig
District MdVb
signed Dr. Young"

The official announcement for the registration of young women born in 1925, published on May 17, 1943, also in the Escher Tageblatt, closes with the same threat of punishment.

Workers in large factories across the country went on strike against the introduction of forced recruitment into the Wehrmacht in 1942. The Nazi regime reacted with extreme brutality. Twenty strikers were shot in the forest near the Hinzert concentration camp , and Hans Adam of German origin , a member of the Alweraje resistance group , was beheaded by guillotine on September 11, 1942 in Cologne. 125 arrested were transferred to the Gestapo and taken to concentration camps. The event also received a lot of attention abroad.
The victims of the repression that followed the strike will be remembered in Luxembourg on August 31, the "strike commemoration day".

From June 1944 to February 28, 1945 Bruno Jung was deputy district administrator in Zell .

Self-help or decline, 1931

editor

  • Contributions to social welfare . Edited by Bruno Jung and Heinrich Weber on behalf of the Westphalian Provincial Association. 8 volumes. Aschendorff, Münster 1925–1927.
  • with Jens Jessen : Self-Help or Downfall: A Question of Fate for the German Nation . Oldenburg: Stalling, 1931

Honors

Since April 2, 1961, Jung was an honorary citizen of Göttingen . The Bruno-Jung-Weg in Göttingen was named after him on October 9, 1970. In 2016, this street name was reversed on the basis of a resolution by the Göttingen city council and changed to Lou-Andreas-Salomé- Weg .

literature

  • Essen heads - who was what? Richard Bracht Verlag, Essen 1985, ISBN 3-87034-037-1 .
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Parliamentarians of Lower Saxony, 1919–1945. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 2004, pp. 176/177.
  • Ernst Boehme: Bruno Jung, Lord Mayor of the City of Göttingen from 1926 to 1938, an unwilling executor? In: Göttinger Jahrbuch. 54, 2006, pp. 137-145.
  • Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Jung, Prof. Dr. Bruno, included in personalities of the Cochem-Zell district. Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 169.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 170.
  2. ↑ See on this: Massard, JA, 2018. Esch: When the swastika flag waved on the town hall (III). The district, the district leader, the district administrators . Tageblatt, December 10, 2018, No. 287, pp. 4–5.
    Massard, JA, 2018. When the swastika flag waved on the Escher town hall . Extended online version of a three-part article series published in the Tageblatt (November - December 2018).
  3. ↑ Chapter The 1942 strike and its consequences of the catalog for the exhibition Gestapo Terror in Luxembourg - Administration, Surveillance, Suppression ( Memento of the original of February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Musée national de la Résistance, Esch-sur-Alzette , October 17, 2015–8. May 2016, ISBN 978-2-87967-209-0 . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.esch.lu
  4. ^ Facebook page of the Luxembourg initiative for a Hans-Adam-Strasse , last accessed: September 24, 2016.
  5. ^ Resolution proposal renaming the Bruno-Jung-Weg. , April 15, 2016, last accessed: January 24, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Jung, Bruno Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Lord Mayor of Göttingen
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1966
Place of death Goettingen