Julius Hesse

Julius Hesse (born April 23, 1875 in Borgholzhausen , † March 6, 1944 in Theresienstadt ) was a German businessman and football official.

Life

The Jewish merchant Hesse ran a shoe and sports shop on the Alter Markt in Bielefeld's old town. He was married and had three daughters. After the seizure of power of the Nazis its business victim was the state-imposed boycott of Jewish shops . Members of the SA wrote slogans like “Heil Hitler ! You buy shoes at Wittler! Just don't buy them from Hesse, otherwise you'll get something in your face! ”On the shop window . Mid-1930s tried the couple Hesse, suicide to commit, but this failed. In November 1938, Hesse was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp , but was later able to return to Bielefeld. On May 12, 1943, Hesse and his wife were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp . Julius Hesse was murdered there on March 6, 1944. His wife also died there. The three daughters survived the Holocaust because they emigrated to the USA , Belgium and Israel .

In front of Bielefeld main station there is a memorial to the Jews who were deported from here , on which the names of the Hesse couple are noted. Arminia Bielefeld's fan club took on the sponsorship of the Stolpersteine dedicated to Julius and his wife Jenni Hesse. The stumbling blocks are located at Rathausstrasse 1 in Bielefeld.

President of Arminia Bielefeld

Hesse was a member of the Arminia Bielefeld association and in 1909 took over the chairmanship of the association from Emil Schröder, who moved to Braunschweig for professional reasons . The club was in a serious financial crisis at the time. Arminia acquired a site on Kaiserstrasse, today's August-Bebel-Strasse, and prepared it at great expense. However, the area was confiscated by the city administration . Since the Arminia was not yet in the association register was entered feared many members of the creditors in liability to be taken and kicked out of the club from. Julius Hesse agreed an installment payment with the creditors to pay off the mountain of debt. He also had the association entered in the register of associations. In 1914, Hesse handed over the chairmanship to Siegmund Willig.

It is not known whether and when Julius Hesse was excluded from the association because of his Jewish beliefs. It is also not known whether Hesse was made an honorary member because of his services to the association. In the post-war period, Hesse's work was always praised in the Arminia celebratory publications. However, it should be until 2005 before his fate is mentioned for the first time in the club's history for the centenary.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Insa Schlumbohm: Of badges of honor and club rescuers . In: Arminia Bielefeld (Ed.): 111 years of Arminia Bielefeld . 2016, p. 29-33 .
2. ↑ Arminia Bielefeld commemorates the victims of National Socialism. Neue Westfälische , accessed on November 9, 2017 .