Hermann Julier

Hermann Julier (born February 13, 1877 in Mingolsheim ; † June 16, 1939 there ) was a farmer, mill owner, mayor and member of the Reichstag . From 1912 to 1921 he was mayor of Mingolsheim, from 1924 to 1930 a member of the Reichstag ( Badischer Landbund , DNVP - internship , CNBL ) and from 1923 to 1932 founder and board member of "Licht und Kraft", Wiesloch .

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Julier was born in Mingolsheim in 1877 as the son of a wealthy miller. He was the son of Georg Julier's second marriage from Heidelsheim to Rosalinde Susanna Deutsch from Stettfeld . When Hermann was 16 years old, his father Georg died, and five years later his mother also passed away. Julier completed a school education in Alsace , which is why he did not have to do military service. In 1897/98 he learned the miller's trade , traveled to Switzerland and Italy before taking over his father's business in 1900.

On October 9, 1910, he married Mathilde Wüst, daughter of the Mingolsheim tailor , Theodor Wüst, in Mingolsheim . The mother-in-law was Bertha Bürger who came from Östringen .

In 1912 Julier was elected mayor of his home parish, an activity that he performed as a civilian even during the war years and that gave him access to a number of supra-local functions. As a "business-minded" man, he was entrusted with the task of distributing business cards across the region. For his work he was later awarded the Prussian Cross of Merit for War Aid. From 1914 to 1921 he was a member of the district council , between 1916 and 1918 a member of the municipalities in the Karlsruhe district assembly. In this way he made contacts that helped him to pursue a further career as a functionary in the post-war years : after the end of the war, he was involved in the re-establishment of the Baden Municipal Association (from 1923: Association of Baden Municipalities), which he chaired from 1920 to 1924. During this time, the association struggled above all to shape the municipality's self-government and improve the position of municipal officials and mayors. The latter did not only refer to financial and legal issues, it also included support for a “zum Sternen” convalescent home in Höllsteig designed for these professional groups .

In 1920, Julier and other mayors founded the "Wiesloch light and power supply " (transferred to Badenwerk in 1938 ), a cooperative that obtained electricity from the Rheinau power station in Mannheim and distributed it in its supply area. The community association took this pilot project as an opportunity to advertise further cooperatives of this type, because this approach could lead to a "socialization" of the electricity supply.

However, Julier turned his main focus on agriculture, he ran a test vineyard himself and was chairman of the Bruchsal agricultural district association from 1921 to 1926.

In May 1924 and in the new elections in December 1924 , he won a seat in the Reichstag for the Badischer Landbund in constituency 32 (Baden) . Because the Landbündler could not reach a parliamentary group , Julier joined the DNVP as an intern . Because of this close connection, Julier found himself exposed to severe criticism at times. Although the worsening country economic crisis in 1928 that caused more Landbund deputies left the DNVP, Julier remained first in the group. The Landbund evidently moved away from Julier, while the DNVP tried to give him second place in the list in Baden for the upcoming Reichstag elections . Julier, meanwhile, set up a party organization in Baden for the Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party (CNBL). Although the CNBL performed poorly in the 1928 elections in Baden, Julier moved back into the Reichstag because he was covered by the Reichsliste. He remained a member of the CNBL in the Reichstag until 1930, when he withdrew from politics for health reasons. His strategic skill, with which he was able to retain his seat in parliament despite various divergent interests, corresponds to a weakness for titles and positions. That will u. a. This is evident in the biographies that Julier had published about himself in the Reichstag handbooks, some of which were longer than the entries made by well-known politicians of the Weimar Republic .

Julier was a functionary who ensured organizational cohesion with unquestionable skill, recognized and promoted tendencies early on , but then gave little substantive impetus. During his parliamentary activities in the Reich, he mainly occupied agricultural and, in this context, customs and tax policy issues, but also campaigned for the improvement of the infrastructure in North Baden and the construction of new Rhine bridges in the greater Mannheim area . In the meantime, he maintained a not immodest lifestyle , and maintaining his political position in the complex structure of the farmers' associations must have cost him money. In any case, Julier's mill business ran into financial bottlenecks at the end of the 1920s. Serious health problems also occur during this period. As CEO of "light and strength Wiesloch" to Julier some financial freedoms that with reason to rough made NS - Propaganda delivered. For financial irregularities of over-indebted Hermann Julier 1932, under pressure from the Supervisory Board on its board office, in the course of investigation of other unposted fee grants to two directors he had in 1933 a few days in custody spend. A managing director of the electricity company who was also involved in dirty business shot himself.

Hermann Julier died impoverished on June 16, 1939.

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• BA Potsdam (Reichslandbund / press archive),
• GLA Karlsruhe 237/39549, 237/39593, 344/5901, 388/1039,
• Community Archives Bad Schönborn,
• Reichstag handbooks 1924 and 1928,
• The community magazine .
• Dr. Klaus Konrad Gaßner with "Badische Biographien" 2006

Web links

• Hermann Julier in the database of members of the Reichstag