Ernst Bail

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Ernst Bail

Ernst Alexander Bail (born July 15, 1871 in Erfurt , † February 5, 1951 in the Ötztal Alps ) was a German administrative lawyer and member of the Reichsrat .

Life

Bail's Jewish mother was born in Benary, in whose family Ernst Benary had become world-famous as a flower and plant breeder. After graduating from high school in Berlin, Bail began to study law and economics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . With Julius Raecke he was reciprocated in the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg in 1891 . In 1892 he moved to the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University , where he also joined the Corps Borussia Breslau on October 28, 1892 . After two semesters as a senior , he switched to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin as an inactive person . He passed the legal traineeship in Berlin in 1895 and was appointed government assessor in 1900 . In 1914 he became a secret councilor and lecturer in the Prussian Ministry of Commerce. As State Commissioner for the Berlin Stock Exchange , as Ministerial Director of the Trade Department and in the Reichsrat , he played a key role in determining Prussian and German trade policy until 1929. Ernst Bail was one of the nine members of Borussia Breslau who, according to Nazi jargon, were " Jewish descendants " and therefore left their Borussia Breslau in order to implement the National Socialist Aryan Paragraph, in agreement to ensure the continued existence of Borussia Breslau, 1935-1945.

Bail loved the Giant Mountains , which he was one of the first to explore on skis . He had a house in Schreiberhau . From his marriage to his wife Mina geb. Goerlach had three daughters and a son. A daughter and son died before the father. His daughter Luise-Charlotte ("Liselott") had been a sports educator since 1930 and was married to the sports official Carl Diem .

Bail had a fatal accident at the age of 79 on an icy mountain path near Niedertalbach in South Tyrol.

Honorary positions

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 65/420; 78/647.
  2. Jürgen Herrlein, On the "Aryan Question" in student associations , Nomos, 2015, page 366.
  3. ^ Obituary in the Corps newspaper of Borussia Breslau, issue 45, p. 56 f.
  4. ^ Björn Thomann: Liselott Diehm . In: www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de (last accessed on July 10, 2019).