Julius Doms

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Julius Doms (born March 13, 1889 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia , † August 8, 1964 in Orsoy ) was a German business lawyer , entrepreneur and recipient of the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

Origin and education

His great-grandfather Joseph Doms came to Ratibor from Niederpreschkau and began producing snuff in 1815 ; his son Heinrich Doms became the head of the trading company Joseph Doms . Julius Dom's parents were the tobacco factory owner Franz Doms and Maria Doms geb. Rattle. His younger brother was the moral theologian Herbert Doms . He was a nephew of Wilhelm Doms. After graduating from high school in 1907 in Ratibor, Julius Doms completed an internship in the family business. He then studied law in Leipzig, Munich, Berlin and at the University of Breslau . In 1911 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the position of the partner in a company with limited liability when all company shares were combined in one hand as a doctor of law ( Dr. iur. ).

Live and act

This was followed by internship , one year military service and employment as a judge in Sprotau . At the same time he worked as a legal advisor at the family business in Racibórz. In 1913, at the age of 25, he was the fourth generation to join his father's tobacco manufacturing business in Racibórz and in 1922 became its managing director. Around 1914 the company employed around 790 people and the company had the highest tax revenues in the chewing tobacco industry in the German Reich. Julius Doms together with Prof. Johannes Moser in Berlin conducted research into new techniques of tobacco with the use of different flavor - bacteria and became owners of several patents which, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria Moravia and Romania were marketed.

Julius Doms, who belonged to the DNVP , was a member of the district council , member of the Upper Silesian Provincial Committee and chairman of the professional court of honor at the Association of Smoking, Chewing and Snuff Manufacturers. From April to July 1933 he was representative of Upper Silesia in the Prussian State Council .

At the beginning of February 1945, Julius Doms evacuated the mobile parts of his machine and warehouse inventory in 44 wagons to Moravia before the advancing Red Army, but the goods were confiscated. In 1946 he arrived in the British occupation zone and set up a new snuff and chewing tobacco factory in Orsoy on the Lower Rhine, which initially developed favorably so that a factory building of its own could be built in 1957-1958 and employ up to 300 people were. After the consumer behavior shifted from snuff and chewing tobacco to cigarettes and fine cut , the business could no longer hold itself - a few years after Julius Dom's death (1964) his son had to give up the company.

In addition to his business activities, Doms was again politically active. He was a member of the district council of Moers and ran unsuccessfully in the federal elections in 1953 on the CDU's state list in North Rhine-Westphalia . As the successor to Walter Rinke , he was Federal Chairman of the Silesian Landsmannschaft in 1954 and 1955, and its President since 1960. In 1963 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit, which Minister Konrad Grundmann presented to him.

The Julius-Doms-Strasse in Leverkusen- Opladen was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • The position of the partner in the limited liability company when all shares are combined in one hand. Inaugural dissertation , R. Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1913.
    • Translation: Situation de l'associé d'une société à responsabilité limitée dans le cas de la réunion de toutes les parts sociales dans une même main.
  • Catholic Action and Center. Font distribution office, Berlin 1932.
  • Thoughts on the right to a home. Proven on international documents. Troisdorf / Rhl., Verl 1956.
  • Law of home and displacement in the light of international legal documents. Lecture. Landsmannschaft Schlesien, Bonn 1957.
  • The international legal situation of Silesia. Lecture held May 19, 1960. Landsmannschaft Schlesien, Bonn 1960.
  • The vote in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921. Lecture given in Kiel on March 20, 1961. Heye & Co., Kiel 1961.

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SURNAME Doms, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doms, Julius Paul Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business lawyer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratibor , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1964
Place of death Orsoy