Julius Charig

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Julius Charig (born June 26, 1897 in Obslaufen (district of Laufen (Salzach) ); † declared dead on March 25, 1943, according to another source March 29, 1943 in Stendal) was a German lawyer.

Live and act

The birth and the declaration of the death of Julius Charig are noted in the registry office register of Laufen. Original: City of Laufen

Charig was born the son of the Jewish businessman Hermann Charig and his wife Milka. His family left his hometown before he went to school. After attending school, he volunteered to take part in the First World War : On June 23, 1915, he joined the 2nd Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment . He took part in the summer battle and, according to the corps order of January 18, 1917, was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class for outstanding bravery and fearless conduct in the Battle of the Somme . Also in 1917 he took part in the Battle of Flanders . On October 14, 1917, he was slightly wounded on his left upper arm by an artillery piece. On the night of September 12th to 13th, 1917, he took part in a raid troop operation as a member of the Bavarian Radio Division 105. During the war he was awarded the Bavarian Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with Crowns and Swords and the Wound Badge.

After the war, Charig studied law and political science in Munich and Breslau . He completed his law degree on December 11, 1922 with a doctorate. He passed the assessor exam in 1924. He opened a law firm at Nesserlander Strasse 1 in Emden. Around the same time, Charig joined the office of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith in Hanover as a syndic. In this capacity he devoted himself to the legal protection of Jews in the northwest of the German Reich. As part of this activity, he came into contact with the anti-Semitic activities of Pastor Ludwig Münchmeyer on Borkum. From his office in Emden he supported the opposition against Münchmeyer in Borkum. Because of his research in the dispute with the pastor, he was charged by the public prosecutor's office with insulting the Evangelical Lutheran regional church office and Pastor Münchmeyer.

In the autumn of 1925, Charig helped print the campaign pamphlet The False Priest or the Cannibal Chief of the North Sea Islanders , written by Albrecht Völklein and directed against Münchmeyer , which led to a process that was noticed throughout the Reich. Charig was charged with insulting and defamation of the regional church and Münchmeyers. In the course of the trial held in May 1926, Charig was sentenced to a fine of 1,000 Reichsmarks by the extended lay jury in Emden . During the hearing, however, he managed to incriminate Münchmeyer so much that he gave up his pastor and left Borkum.

As Charig subsequently lost many of his clients, he gave up his law practice in Emden and moved to Berlin in 1927. On August 13, 1929 he was admitted to the bar at the regional court in Stendal . After 1933 he was able to continue his work as a lawyer for the time being, despite his Jewish descent due to the so-called " frontline fighter privilege ".

On November 30, 1938, Charig's admission to the bar at the Stendal District Court was officially withdrawn.

Stendal district court

Charig's life after 1933 is largely in the dark. The last identifiable document from his hand is a letter dated April 27, 1933 to the President of the Higher Regional Court in Naumburg . The last document about him is a letter from the Higher Regional Court Director of Stendal dated December 1, 1938 to the Reich Ministry of Justice , in which he confirms that Charig, in accordance with Article 1 (1) of the fifth ordinance of the Reich Citizenship Act of September 27, 1938, from the List of lawyers admitted to the regional court has been deleted.

On January 1, 1939, "Israel" was compulsorily entered as the middle name in the registry office of the city of Laufen.

According to the memorial book of the victims of the Holocaust in the Federal Archives , Charig was deported on April 17, 1942 from Magdeburg via Berlin and Potsdam to the Warsaw ghetto . There are no more precise data on his death. According to the order of the Stendal District Court on June 7, 1950, Charig was declared dead with effect from March 25 or 29, 1943.

Archival material

  • Personal file of the Ministry of Justice (Federal Archives Lichterfelde R 3001/53472).

Fonts

  • The assignment and attachment of future claims , Breslau 1922. (Dissertation)
  • On the question of collective insult in: CV-Zeitung No. 52 of December 24, 1926, p. 680

literature

  • Udo Beer, The false priest in: Yearbook of the Society for fine arts and patriotic antiquities to Emden, 66th volume, 1986, p. 152 ff.
  • Biographical Lexicon for East Friesland, Volume 1, Aurich 1993, p. 74 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Registry office book of the city of Laufen
  2. ↑ https://www.volksstimme.de/nachrichten/lokal/stendal/407498_Spur-der-Charigs-verliert-sich-im-Warschauer-Ghetto.html Article about the life of Julius Charig, accessed July 16, 2020
  3. ↑ https://www.ostfriesenelandschaft.de/fileadmin/user_upload/BIBLIOTHEK/BLO/Charig.pdf Article about Julius Charig, accessed July 16, 2020, outdated TLS certificate can lead to download problems
  4. ^ Registry office book of the city of Laufen
  5. ↑ https://www.ostfriesenelandschaft.de/fileadmin/user_upload/BIBLIOTHEK/BLO/Charig.pdf Article about Julius Charig, accessed July 16, 2020, outdated TLS certificate can lead to download problems
  6. ↑ bundesarchiv.de .
  7. ↑ Registry office book of the city of Laufen, can possibly also be read as 1958; According to https://www.volksstimme.de/nachrichten/lokal/stendal/407498_Spur-der-Charigs-verliert-sich-im-Warschauer-Ghetto.html , the death declaration procedure was pending as early as 1950
personal data
SURNAME Charig, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Obslauf , Upper Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH after April 1942