Julius Gilmer

Julius Ormiston Gilmer (born December 7, 1880 in Mannheim ; † February 19, 1959 ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ) and former member of the state constitutional assembly , the forerunner of the Hessian state parliament .

Julius Gilmer was the son of the chemist and factory director Dr. Ludwig Friedrich Gilmer (1839–1921) and his wife Auguste Marie Magdalene née Hoffmann, the daughter of Christoph Hoffmann . He married Frida Luise Elisabeth, born Ahrens, on May 30, 1912 in Bensheim (born April 19, 1885 in Stade, † December 23, 1954 in Darmstadt). The marriage resulted in four daughters.

Gilmer studied law in Heidelberg, Munich and Giessen. From 1912 to 1915 he was a lawyer and court assessor in Bensheim. From 1915 to 1918 he served as a war volunteer in the First World War . From 1919 to 1926 he was a councilor at the local court in Fürth (Hesse) and from 1926 to 1932 a public prosecutor in Darmstadt. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was beaten in 1933 because of his democratic commitment by members of the SA and 1933 dismissed from the judicial service. During the Nazi era he worked as a lawyer. On July 12, 1945 he was appointed regional court director and on September 1, 1947, regional court president in Darmstadt .

In the Weimar Republic he was a member of the German Democratic Party and the Republican Judges Association. After 1945 he was one of the founders of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. For the CDU he was from July 15, 1946 to August 9, 1946 a member of the state assembly of Greater Hesse that advised the constitution.

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• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 265 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 145.

Web links

• Gilmer, Julius in the Hessian Biography