Julius Hoppenrath

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Julius Hoppenrath (born August 22, 1880 in Klein Butzig , West Prussia ; † April 19, 1961 in Mannheim ) was a German politician ( DNVP / NSDAP ) in Danzig , MdL and chief financial president in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia .

Life

After completing his school career, the son of a farmer studied law and political science and was then awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . He participated in the First World War as a company commander. He later worked as a government finance advisor. Politically, he initially belonged to the DNVP and from 1928 was a member of the state parliament in Gdansk. As Finance Senator and member of the People's Day he worked in the Free City of Danzig from 1931 to 1939 , where he first belonged to the block of the national collection and then to the NSDAP. From 1939 to 1945 he was chief finance president in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia. After the war he lived in Neumünster until 1951 and then in Bad Dürkheim . Politically engaged in the displaced party GB / BHE , for which he ran unsuccessfully in 1953 in the Bundestag constituency of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (159).

literature

  • Johann Heinrich Kumpf: The Central Authorities of the Reich Finance Administration and their Presidents, 1919–1945: a documentation , collection of financial history of the Federal Finance Academy, 1999.
  • Hoppenrath, Julius . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Haack to Huys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 528 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 507 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Individual evidence

  1. Volker Rieß: The beginnings of the annihilation of "life unworthy of life" in the Reichsgauen of Danzig-West Prussia and Wartheland, 1939/40. Lang, 1995, p. 43 ( books.google.de ).
  2. Alexander Kessler: The Young German Order in the Years of Decision (II) 1931–1933 (= contributions to the history of the Young German Order. Issue 5). Lohmüller, Munich 1976, p. 67 (fn. 153).