Julius Adler (lawyer)
Julius Adler (born September 29, 1882 in Würzburg , † July 1, 1934 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German lawyer and victim of the Röhm putsch .
Live and act
Life before 1933
Adler was the fourth child of the Jewish grain dealer Salomon Adler from Würzburg and his wife Jeanette, née Oberndorfer. After attending school, he studied law at the universities of Würzburg, Munich and Berlin . In 1909 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. In 1910 he was admitted to the bar at the Augsburg Regional Court and in 1911 at the Würzburg Regional Court .
From 1915 to 1918 Adler took part in the First World War. Some sources say he was a deputy sergeant, while others say he was used in an anti-aircraft battery. After the war, Adler returned to his old profession as a lawyer.
Arrest and Assassination
On June 11, 1934, Adler was taken into protective custody for alleged non-compliance with building and fire regulations . The actual reason for the arrest was probably that Adler represented his cousin Willy Adler, who was opposed to taking over his business, a malt factory, as a lawyer. In addition, because of his Jewish descent, he was basically unpopular. The protective custody order issued by the Würzburg police department on June 13, 1934 stated:
"Adler is not complying with the building and fire regulations imposed on him by the Würzburg City Council since December 1933, he is also a masochist and has known for years how to make two orphaned women sexually obedient and submissive to his abnormal sexual predisposition, taking advantage of their plight. In a memorandum, he accused the NSBO of criminal acts in the Mohr'schen Malzfabrik in Würzburg that belonged to his cousin Willi Adler. He is also strongly suspected of having helped this cousin, who by incorrectly accounting for his creditors swindle 2-3 million marks in credits, to escape. His behavior is not only in a completely detrimental sense to the state, but also means a continued danger to public order and security. However, Adler is to be taken into custody for reasons of his personal safety, as there is already a strong disagreement with him in large circles of the people, which leads to fear of the worst if he is left at large. Protective custody was therefore to be ordered. "
On June 20, 1934, Adler was transferred from Würzburg to the Dachau concentration camp. There he was shot dead by members of the SS camp guard together with four other prisoners ( Erich Gans , Walter Häbich , Adam Hereth and Paul Röhrbein ) on the night of June 30th to July 1st in the course of the Röhm affair . The shooting was officially justified by the fact that the prisoners had "declared solidarity" with the SA leaders who were supposed to be putsch on that day. It is more likely, however, that the camp management around concentration camp commandant Theodor Eicke took advantage of the political cleansing wave to eliminate some particularly unpleasant prisoners in the "slipstream" of the action.
Adler's relatives were not informed of his death until October 1934. When the Reich Ministry of the Interior asked the Bavarian Political Police about the reasons for the shooting of the two of them on the basis of a petition by the Reich Representation of German Jews on November 22, 1934, in which the deaths of Adler and Gans were questioned, the executions became political Police commander of Bavaria in a letter dated May 7, 1935 justified the fact that Adler and Erich Gans tried to “instigate a revolt” on June 30 and were therefore “ shot dead”.
Fonts
- Effect of issuing a bill of exchange on the causal obligation relationship , 1909. (Dissertation)
Archival material
- Bavarian Main State Archives: MJu 20263 (Personnel file as a lawyer at the Bavarian Ministry of Justice)
- State Archives Würzburg: Gestapo 2.
literature
- Reiner Strätz: The Biographical Handbook of Würzburg Jews 1900-1945 , Vol. 2.
- Reinhard Weber: The fate of the Jewish lawyers in Bavaria after 1933 , 2006, pp. 55 and 211.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhold Weber: The fate of Jewish lawyers , 2006, p. 55.
- ^ Lothar Gruchmann: Justice in the Third Reich , p. 440.
- ^ Klaus Drobisch / Günther Wieland : System of the Nazi concentration camps, 1933–1939 , 1993, p. 237.
- ^ Entry on Julius Adler in the German Digital Library .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adler, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1934 |
| Place of death | Dachau concentration camp |