Johannes Rupp (politician, 1903)

Johannes Ludwig Rupp (born January 26, 1903 in ranks ; † May 20, 1978 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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Rupps 'father, Johannes Rupp (1864–1943), was a farmer, mayor of ranks and from 1907 to 1918 a member of the Reichstag for the farmers' union . Rupp attended elementary school in series from 1909 to 1912, then the secondary school in Sinsheim until 1918 and the upper secondary school in Bruchsal from 1918 to 1921 . He then studied law and history in Heidelberg and Tübingen from 1921 to 1924 . Rupp was a member of the striking association Teutonia Heidelberg . In 1924 Rupp passed the first state examination and in 1927 the second. In 1928 he settled as a lawyer in Karlsruhe , where he was admitted to the regional court . Rupp married in 1930; the marriage had three children.

Politically, Rupp was initially active in the Stahlhelm and from 1927 in the DNVP , for which he ran unsuccessfully for the Baden state parliament in 1929 . In December 1929 Rupp joined the NSDAP ( membership number 164.724), for whose goals he promoted at numerous events. From 1929 to 1939 Rupp was head of the legal department at the NSDAP Gau leadership for Baden.

In the Reichstag election of September 1930 , Rupp was elected as a candidate of the NSDAP for constituency 32 (Baden) in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic , of which he was a permanent member until November 1933. One of the parliamentary events in which Rupp was involved during his time as a member of parliament was the vote on the Enabling Act in March 1933.

After the National Socialist “ seizure of power ”, Rupp was appointed “Representative of the Reich Commissioner for Justice” on March 11, 1933, making him de facto Minister of Justice for Baden. In this capacity, Rupp ensured the displacement of Jewish judges and prosecutors who were no longer allowed to plead in public. In addition, he deposed the attorney general and dissolved the board of the Baden Bar Association . He advised Jewish lawyers to "voluntarily" waive their membership in the Chamber. On April 13, 1933, Rupp was replaced by Gauleiter and Reich Commissioner Robert Wagner after he had refused, in accordance with Wagner's demand, to obtain a death sentence against Christian Nussbaum, member of the SPD, within three days . Nussbaum, who was later declared insane, shot two police officers who wanted to put him in " protective custody ". Rupp's successor was Otto Wacker , who took over the management of the unified ministries for culture and education on the one hand and justice on the other. Rupp ran for the Reichstag election in November 1933 , but did not enter the National Socialist Reichstag .

From June 1933 to September 1936 Rupp was director of the central agricultural cooperative in Karlsruhe. At the same time he was the head of the state department of the Reichsnährstand in Baden.

In 1936, Prime Minister Walter Köhler appointed Rupp to the board of the Badenwerk (Baden electricity supply). In 1937 he became chairman of the board of the Badische Bank in Karlsruhe. From 1938 Rupp was Vice President of the Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In 1939 he became a member of the Academy for German Law . In the same year he was appointed to the judiciary ; he was also district chairman of the National Socialist Lawyers' Association .

After the German occupation of France , from 1940 to 1944 Rupp was responsible for the fiduciary management of the Alsatian banks at the banking supervision of the German civil administration in Strasbourg . In 1941 Rupp was drafted into the Wehrmacht . After the German attack on the Soviet Union , he organized the electricity supply of field airports as a special leader with the rank of lieutenant in Orsha . In the meantime placed in the UK , Rupp was a military administrator in La Rochelle from March 1944, where he was responsible for the determination and regulation of war damage. In August 1944 he was seriously wounded and retired from the Wehrmacht after hospital stays.

At the end of the war, Rupp was captured by the Allied occupation forces and interned in Karlsruhe and Ludwigsburg until 1948 according to the automatic arrest . During the denazification , the Ludwigsburg camp ruling chamber classified him in January 1948 as “incriminated” and sentenced him to three years in a labor camp, taking into account his internment, and to confiscate 40% of his property. The decision was overturned in the appeal and referred to the Karlsruhe Central Judicial Chamber, which classified Rupp as a “minor offender” and sentenced him to an atonement of 500 DM. The chamber took into account Rupp's advocacy for Alsatian reserve officers in the French army, whom he helped by transferring them to avoid the threat of being drafted into the Wehrmacht.

Until 1950, Rupp was employed as an in-house counsel in a trading company and tax consultancy. From 1950 to 1966 he practiced again as a lawyer in Karlsruhe. In September 1953 he ran unsuccessfully for the National Collection / German Community (NS / DG) for the federal election and a year later was deputy state chairman of this party in Baden. Rupp lived in Ettlingen since 1937 .

literature

• Horst Ferdinand: Rupp, Johannes Ludwig. In: Bernd Ottnad (Hrsg.): Baden-Württembergische Biographien. Volume 2, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-17-014117-1 , pp. 374-377 ( online ).
• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 531 .

Web links

• Johannes Rupp in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Johannes Rupp in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Johannes Rupp at BIORAB-Online.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Peter Horst Grill: The Nazi movement in Baden, 1920-1945. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1983, ISBN 0-8078-1472-5 , p. 191.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ferdinand, Rupp .