Julius Fliess

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Julius Fliess (born 1876 in Bernau near Berlin ; died 1955 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and notary .

Life

Julius Fliess took part in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded and received high awards. He worked as a lawyer in Berlin and was a member of the Berlin Chamber Board until 1933. He then worked together with Theodor Dellevie (1884–1941) as a representative of the interests of Jewish lawyers in relation to the Prussian Ministry of Justice. In the spring of 1942 there was a violent argument between Fliess and the later chairman of the People's Court , Roland Freisler , who was then ministerial director in the Prussian Ministry of Justice. Freisler told Fliess that he should act on his professional colleagues "in the sense of greater restraint" instead of making demands "again in favor of the Jewish lawyers".

In 1935 Fliess was banned from working as a notary . He was one of the last Jewish lawyers who, now referred to as “consultants”, could still work in Berlin after 1938. In November 1941 it became known to the Reich judge Hans von Dohnanyi , who was at the Reichsgericht at the time , that Fliess and his family were to be deported. He arranged for Admiral Wilhelm Canaris , head of defense in the Wehrmacht's military secret service , to intervene in order to postpone the deportation. From May / June 1942, Canaris planned to bring the Fliess family across the border as alleged agents in the so-called Company Seven . Finally, in September 1942, he was able to smuggle them into Switzerland and save them from deportation. According to the recording of his daughter Dorothee Fliess , the consent of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler had been obtained by misleading him into assuming that Fliess was part of a small “group of people disguised as Jews” and that they were being brought abroad as “a Kind of informers for Germany should work ”.

After the war, Fliess returned to Germany in 1947 and resumed his legal practice in Berlin.

literature

  • Tillmann Krach: Jewish lawyers in Prussia. About the importance of the free lawyer and its destruction by National Socialism. CH Beck, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-406-35078-X , p. 432. (short biography)
  • Winfried Meyer: Company Seven: a rescue operation for those threatened by the Holocaust from the Foreign Office / Defense in the High Command of the Wehrmacht. Hain, Frankfurt am Main 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tillmann Krach: Jewish lawyers in Prussia. About the importance of the free lawyer and its destruction by National Socialism. CH Beck, Munich 1991, p. 432.
  2. ^ Tillmann Krach: Jewish lawyers in Prussia. About the importance of the free lawyer and its destruction by National Socialism. CH Beck, Munich 1991, p. 315.
  3. ↑ Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations. Germans and Austrians. Edited by Daniel Fraenkel and Jakob Borut. With an afterword by Horst Köhler. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005 ISBN 3-89244-900-7 , p. 100f.
  4. ^ Tillmann Krach: Jewish lawyers in Prussia. About the importance of the free lawyer and its destruction by National Socialism. CH Beck, Munich 1991, p. 403.
personal data
SURNAME Fliess, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernau near Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1955
Place of death Berlin