Ernst Wilhelm Just

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Plaque from the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory for Ernst Wilhelm Just

Ernst Wilhelm Just (born October 8, 1865 in Dresden ; † December 27, 1945 there ) was a lawyer in the Saxon civil service. From 1898 to 1900 he worked as a professor of mining law and general law at the Freiberg Bergakademie .

Live and act

Ernst Wilhelm Just was the eldest son of the later district court president Heinrich Wilhelm Just (1836-1896) and his wife Helene Marie, born. Weinlig (1840-1923). On November 23, 1894 he married Anna Bertha, b. Schmitz (1871–1945), daughter of the Dresden businessman Peter Samuel Schmitz (1829–1921), with whom he had four children.

He attended the public school in Zwickau and, from 1876, high schools in Zwickau, Dresden and Freiberg, where he passed the school leaving examination in the spring of 1885. He then did military service as a one-year volunteer with the 10th Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 134 . As first lieutenant a. D. he was at the beginning of World War II for indispensable explained.

He was enrolled at the University of Leipzig from May 1886 to July 1889 to study law . During his studies he became a member of the Grimensia Leipzig Landsmannschaft . He passed his first state examination in law with “very good” and, after preparatory internships for judicial service, passed the second state examination in December 1893 with “very excellent”.

Professional career

He began his professional career as an assistant judge at the Limbach / Vogtland district court . In May 1895 he was assigned to the Freiberg district court and appointed district judge there in July 1897. In August 1898 he was appointed to the legal advice of the Freiberg Mining Authority and a full professor of mining law at the Bergakademie. In April 1900 he moved to Department I of the Saxon Ministry of Finance , where he dealt with tax matters and later with budget and drafting bills. There he was appointed secret finance council and lecturing council in 1904.

In 1917 he was appointed ministerial director and head of the second department of the Saxon Ministry of Finance, and in 1923 he was appointed ministerial director. The business area of ​​this department included the state-owned companies - the state mining and steel works in Freiberg, the Meissen porcelain factory , the building administration, road and hydraulic engineering, the domains and state forests and the universities - Leipzig University , Dresden Technical University , Freiberg Mining Academy , Tharandt Forestry College . The state energy supply and motor vehicle traffic were added later.

In 1929 he retired. However, he retained various offices in administrative and supervisory boards of Saxon state-owned companies that belonged to the division of the ministerial department he had previously headed, in particular the administrative and supervisory board chairmanship of the AG Sächsische Werke (ASW), the Kraftverkehrsgesellschaft Freistaat Sachsen (KVG) and others. These offices were removed from him after the National Socialists came to power. However, he remained a board member of the Lingner Foundation and treasurer of the German Hygiene Museum . In retirement he devoted himself more to family research.

Services

During his time in Department I, he wrote a sensational memorandum from the states of Baden and Saxony against the introduction of imperial taxes on shipping on the free German rivers.

After Kaiser Wilhelm II had granted the Technical University the right to award doctorates in 1899, he suggested that the Freiberg Mining Academy should also be granted this right. This was done in 1905 by Friedrich August III , with the condition that the oral examination must be taken at the TH Dresden. The final transfer to Freiberg took place in 1921. As a thank you, the Rectorate of the Bergakademie awarded him the first honorary honorary doctorate on March 1, 1921.

Just had early relationships with the entrepreneur and philanthropist Karl August Lingner . The Lingner-Werke produced hygiene products (Odol, Chlorodont). In 1911 the multimillionaire organized the 1st International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden, which was sponsored by the Saxon state .

As a result, the German Hygiene Museum was founded in 1912 . The construction of the museum, completed in 1930, which was badly damaged and rebuilt in World War II , was funded by the Saxon Ministry of Finance. Lingner appointed Just as co-executor. After Lingner's death (1916) Georg Seiring , later director of the Hygiene Museum in Dresden, and Just traveled to Switzerland to inspect the Tarasp Castle ( Graubünden ) that Lingner had restored and which he had bequeathed to the Saxon King. He recommended to his sovereign to refuse the inheritance because a temporary residential obligation was required in his will.

In 1912 the German Booksellers Association decided to create a collection of German-language literature. The Saxon State together with the Reich Government and the City of Leipzig made themselves available as the client for the German Library . The Saxon Ministry of Finance was responsible for the planning and execution in the building construction department (architect Oskar Pusch ) and for financial and legal issues with the II. Department with Ministerialrat Ernst Wilhelm Just. The library building was built in the war years 1914/15.

The Ministry of Finance in Dresden promoted the long-term energy supply of Saxony at an early stage by developing the Saxon lignite deposits through soil surveys and land acquisition. After the merger of the lignite mine in the Northwest Saxon and Upper Lusatian Revier (Bedir) with the power plants (Eldir), which was financially and politically sponsored by Just , Hermann Eugen Müller took over overall responsibility as Director General in the civil service in 1916/17. In 1923, the Free State of Saxony brought the mining and electricity companies with the property into the joint stock company Sächsische Werke (ASW), which remained fully state-owned .

In 1924 the State Brown Coal Research Institute (today: German Fuel Institute ) was founded with funding from Just in the Saxon Ministry of Finance and the Brown Coal Foundation, which has existed since 1918 . The main tasks of the institute were initially the lignite briquetting and liquefaction.

During the Weimar Republic, Just served a total of nine different ministers, which impaired the continuity of his work. However, he showed moral courage and a sense of responsibility even in difficult situations. When a minister threatened the architect Oskar Pusch , who was responsible for the state building projects, with disciplinary proceedings for insubordination, which was unjustified, he suggested that the minister include himself in the disciplinary proceedings, whereupon the minister relented.

Honors

  • Award of an honorary doctorate to Dr.-Ing. Eh on March 10, 1921 by the Bergakademie Freiberg
  • Appointment as Honorary Senator of the Dresden University of Technology (1928)
  • Appointment as honorary senator of the Tharandt Forestry College (1928)
  • Appointment as honorary member of the Brown Coal Foundation at the Bergakademie Freiberg

literature

  • Ernst Wilhelm Just: From the life of our ancestors. A family story . Gebhardt's Verlag Leipzig, 1939
  • Carl Schiffner : From the life of old Freiberg mountain students . Vol. 3. Freiberg, 1940, p. 190 and supplementary volume, Essen, 1971, p. 405
  • Oskar Pusch and Hermann Eugen Müller : Commemorative publication for the 100th birthday , Dresden 1966
  • Herbert Kaden : 150th birthday of Ernst Wilhelm Just . In: ACAMONTA, magazine for friends and sponsors of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg . 22/2015, pp. 168-169
  • Hartmut Schleiff, Roland Volkmer, Herbert Kaden: Catalogus Professorum Fribergensis: Professors and teachers at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg 1765 to 2015. Freiberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86012-492-5 , p. 91
  • Herbert Kaden: Ernst Wilhelm Just 1865-1945. Legal counsel at the Freiberg Mining Authority, Professor of Mining Law and General Legal Studies and Ministerial Director in the Saxon Ministry of Finance . Freiberg, 2016. Historical series of the Freiberg University Archives , issue 9 (2016)
  • Ernst Wilhelm Just: War of Independence and Civil War. Dresdner Geschichtsblätter, born 1938, issue 1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Just in the Dresden City Wiki
  2. ^ Herbert Kaden: 150th birthday of Ernst Wilhelm Just . In: ACAMONTA, magazine for friends and sponsors of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg . 22/2015, p. 168
  3. ^ Herbert Kaden: Ernst Wilhelm Just 1865-1945. Legal counsel at the Freiberg Mining Authority, Professor of Mining Law and General Legal Studies and Ministerial Director in the Saxon Ministry of Finance . Freiberg, 2016, p. 3ff.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Wilhelm Just . In: Carl Schiffner: From the life of old Freiberg mountain students and the teaching staff of the Bergakademie . 3rd volume. Freiberg, 1940, pp. 190-193
  5. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 170.
  6. ^ Herbert Kaden: Ernst Wilhelm Just 1865-1945. Legal counsel at the Freiberg Mining Authority, Professor of Mining Law and General Legal Studies and Ministerial Director in the Saxon Ministry of Finance . Freiberg, 2016, p. 6f.
  7. ^ Herbert Kaden: Ernst Wilhelm Just 1865-1945. Legal counsel at the Freiberg Mining Authority, Professor of Mining Law and General Legal Studies and Ministerial Director in the Saxon Ministry of Finance . Freiberg, 2016, p. 8
  8. ^ Herbert Kaden: Ernst Wilhelm Just 1865-1945. Legal counsel at the Freiberg Mining Authority, Professor of Mining Law and General Legal Studies and Ministerial Director in the Saxon Ministry of Finance . Freiberg, 2016, pp. 10-12
  9. ^ A b Herbert Kaden: Ernst Wilhelm Just 1865–1945. Legal counsel at the Freiberg Mining Authority, Professor of Mining Law and General Legal Studies and Ministerial Director in the Saxon Ministry of Finance . Freiberg, 2016, p. 15
  10. ↑ See Müller et al. a .: Ernst Wilhelm Just 1865–1965. On the 100th birthday of Dr. Ernst Wilhelm Just . Neuenhaus / Emsland; Dresden, 1966, p. 27 (This report comes from Dr. Georg Seiring, former director of the German Hygiene Museum)
  11. ↑ Ernst Wilhelm Just: From the life of our ancestors. A family story . Gebhardt's Verlag Leipzig, 1939
  12. ↑ See Müller et al. a .: Ernst Wilhelm Just 1865–1965. On the 100th birthday of Dr. Ernst Wilhelm Just . Neuenhaus / Emsland; Dresden, 1966, p. 26 (This report comes from Dr. Georg Seiring, former director of the German Hygiene Museum)
  13. ↑ See Müller (inter alia): Ernst Wilhelm Just 1865–1965. On the 100th birthday of Dr. Ernst Wilhelm Just. Neuenhaus / Emsland. Dresden; 1966, p. 39 (This report comes from Oskar Pusch, former architect and building officer in the Saxon Ministry of Finance)
personal data
SURNAME Just, Ernst Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1945
Place of death Dresden