Eymer Friedrich Illies

Eymer Friedrich Illies (born December 14, 1896 in Sandstedt , † September 28, 1962 in Bielefeld ) was a German politician ( DP ).

Illies first attended the elementary school Sandstedt and later switched to the upper secondary school in Bremen. In the First World War he was a participant in the war between 1914 and 1918. He was awarded for bravery in the face of the enemy, in particular with the EK II, the Bremen Hanseatic Cross and the Wound Badge in silver. After the end of the war he took a degree in law in Jena . There, the lawyer joined the nationally-minded student fraternity “Salia”, which left a lifelong mark on his face due to the marks on his face. Even after his studies, Illies was involved with the old men of the academic gymnastics association “Salia Jenensis”. In 1921 he joined the newly founded "Stahlhelm - Bund der Frontsoldaten", but after a transfer in 1924 lost contact with the armed forces association that was close to the German Nationalists. He passed his state legal examination in 1928 in Berlin and began his work as an assessor at various local courts until 1931. After completing his professional training, he settled as a lawyer in Neuenhaus, where he had already worked during his training and was appointed notary in 1945. The notary admission applied for in 1937 and 1939 had been rejected for political reasons. On June 20, 1959, his professional colleagues elected him to the board of the Oldenburg Bar Association and, when the Oldenburg Chamber of Notaries was founded, also to its board. He was a member of both bodies until his death.

Fritz Illies married Ursula Brill, the daughter of the peat factory owner Johann Arnold Heinrich Brill, in 1931. In Neuenhaus, the lawyer soon became involved in the local gymnastics and sports club, to whose management he was for many years, including as chairman since 1948. He became one of the city's leading sports officials and led his club to a high bloom with a large following. The construction of the Neuenhauser gymnasium and the sports field are inextricably linked with his name. In 1932 Illies rejoined the small Nordhorn Stahlhelm Group, which wanted to oppose the radical SA as a conservative bunch. In 1933 he founded a steel helmet group in Neuenhaus to compete with the local SA. Illies became Grafschafter Kreisführer des Stahlhelm in April 1933, on whose board his father-in-law was also. A core of conservative Nazi opponents was found here. After the compulsory dissolution in 1935, Illies retired from public political life, but was involved in a leading position in a conservative resistance group that also had contact with former SPD local politicians and above all with Colonel Wilhelm Staehle from Neuenhaus and with Dutch resistance members. Members of this group, which later comprised 17 people, were for example his father-in-law Brill with his good contacts to the Netherlands, the later SPD member of the state parliament Heinrich Specht , the lawyer and notary Hans Arends active in the “ Confessing Church ” and the Nordhorn businessman and well-known former local politician Anton Huizinga. In order to distribute leaflets, they mainly established contacts in Bremen and Osnabrück. The group was never exposed, not even when Staehle was arrested. During this time the group was mainly busy providing courier services to the Netherlands for Berlin resistance groups. Heinrich Specht referred to this resistance group in his denazification form as the Illies group .

After the end of the war, the British military government appointed the very popular and popular lawyer and notary to the Grafschafter Kreisag appointed in 1945. There he joined the influential district committee in December and became the second district deputy in January 1946, i.e. one of the two deputies of the district administrator. As the head of a resistance group, the British made Illies head of the Grafschafter Denazification Committee created in February 1946. The Grafschafter Kreistag also sent Illies to the district parliament of Osnabrück, which functioned from February to November 1946 as a democratic representative for the district president.

Illies founded the “ Lower Saxony State Party ” (NLP) in Bentheimer Land , which was renamed “German Party” (DP) in 1947, and was elected chairman of the DP (NLP) of the Grafschaft Bentheim district. In an alliance with the CDU, Illies was elected as a direct candidate in the first electoral period to be a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he belonged between April 20, 1947 and April 30, 1951. From March 28, 1951 he was a member of the DP / CDU parliamentary group. According to the election agreement, the DP then had to support a CDU candidate in the second legislative period. He was also a member of the Grafschafter Kreisag for the DP from 1948 to 1956, which he led there. In the election for the 3rd Bundestag on September 15, 1957, the DP nominated its Grafschafter chairman as the top candidate in the Emsland constituency . With 5.9 percent, Illies was able to significantly increase his party's vote yield.

Fritz Illies, one of the most important Grafschafter district politicians in the post-war years, who remained loyal to the DP until the end, regardless of all the splits, died in a clinic in Bielefeld as a result of complications following a successful gastric operation.

literature

• Wilhelm Kleeberg (editor): Handbook of the Lower Saxony State Parliament as of April 1, 1948, Hanover 1948, p. 99.
• Helmut Lensing: Art. Illies, Eymer Friedrich, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (ed.): Emsländische Geschichte, Vol. 14, Haselünne 2007, pp. 267–274.
• Helmut Lensing: The political participation of the citizens - elections and parties in the county of Bentheim, in: Heinrich Voort (Hrsg.): 250 years Bentheim - Hanover. The consequences of a pledge 1752–2002. Ed. I. A. of the County of Bentheim, Bad Bentheim 2002, 127–266, pp. 183, 200–202.
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 178.
• Gerd Steinwascher (editor): Gestapo Osnabrück reports ... Police and government reports from the Osnabrück administrative district from 1933 to 1936 (Osnabrücker Geschichtsources und Forschungen Vol. 36), Osnabrück 1995, p. 298.
• Gerd Steinwascher: A bourgeois resistance group in the Grafschaft Bentheim district during the Nazi era, in: Bentheimer Jahrbuch 1996 (Das Bentheimer Land vol. 135), Bad Bentheim 1995, 207–220, pp. 209–210.
• NN: Friedrich Illies +. A Grafschafter politician and sportsman went home, in: Grafschafter Nachrichten No. 228 of September 29, 1962.