Julius Friedrich

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Theodor Oskar Louis Julius Friedrich (born August 1, 1883 in Duisburg , † April 9, 1977 in Hamburg ) was a German politician. He was Lord Mayor of the city of Wuppertal from 1931 to 1937 and was temporarily appointed Lord Mayor of Katowice for two months after the German annexation of Poland in World War II in 1939 .

Life

Friedrich was born the son of a hut director in Duisburg. After studying law at the University of Geneva and then at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn , he became active in the Corps Rhenania Bonn . In 1904 he became a court trainee and in 1906 a government trainee. From 1909 to 1914 he was a government assessor at the district office in Essen. He was then a soldier during the First World War . After the end of the war, he worked from 1919 to 1920 as a councilor at the Reich Ministry of Economics. From 1920 to 1929 he was district administrator of the Hattingen district and then district administrator of the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district .

Lord Mayor of Wuppertal

On February 24, 1931, Friedrich was elected Lord Mayor of the city of Wuppertal. He was the successor to Paul Hartmann , the first mayor of the newly unified city of Wuppertal, and faced difficult decisions from the start. The city of Wuppertal was facing a serious financial bottleneck and had to save. Friedrich set a good example and voluntarily waived 25 percent of his salary in order to be able to enforce his savings allowances. Among the 51,000 unemployed who were registered in Wuppertal at the end of the year, there were also the musicians of the city orchestra, which Friedrich canceled without replacement. The city administration even discussed the closure of the opera and the theater, which, however, could not be decided. The Ronsdorfer Bürger- und Verkehrsverein wanted the city ​​of Ronsdorf to regain its independence and spin it off from the city of Wuppertal, and confirmed this at the annual general meeting on March 22, 1933. A week later, the participants passed a letter to the Prussian State Ministry. Friedrich ensured that the protests did not get out of hand and found the legal argument that a settlement in Ronsdorf would not be possible without the new formation of the Lennep district . It was also he who, after the local elections on March 12, 1933, introduced the new city delegates to their office in the Barmer Stadttheater on April 2, and at this solemn event also announced that they would give Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg the title of honorary citizen. Officially, Friedrich remained in the office of Lord Mayor of Wuppertal until July 31, 1937, but was actually given leave of absence on January 23 of the same year.

Friedrich was a member of the National Socialist Lawyers' Association .

Late years

From 1938 to 1939 Friedrich was a member of the government council and consultant for church matters at the Düsseldorf regional council. At the end of 1939 he was Lord Mayor of the city of Katowice from November 1 to December 31 , before he again became a consultant for church matters at the Düsseldorf Regional Council in 1940, which he remained this time until 1950. From 1947 he was a senior councilor. In 1950 he became administrative director of the Diakonissenanstalt Kaiserswerth . As a pensioner he moved to Hamburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. http://www.zeitspurensuche.de/02/o1w1929.htm
  2. Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschichtswerkstatt-ronsdorf.de
  3. General-Anzeiger of April 3, 1933, Wuppertal City Archives
  4. ^ The takeover of power by the National Socialists on ns-gedenkstaetten.de ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )