Julius Jewelowski

Julius Jewelowski (born May 6, 1874 in Willimpol , a district of Kaunas , Russian Empire ; died April 15, 1951 in London ) was a liberal politician in Gdansk and a victim of National Socialism .

Julius Jewelowski, from a family of Russian Jews, was a wood exporter (SJ Jewelowski company) in Gdansk. As the owner of the Danzig-Rückforther sawmills and landowner, he was one of the wealthiest residents of Danzig.

Politically, he joined the German Liberal Party. At the beginning of 1919 he was the deputy chairman of the Reich Citizens' Council . From 1920 to 1923 and again from 1928 to 1930 he belonged to the People's Day , the parliament of the Free City of Danzig, from 1920 to 1923 he was trade senator in the Sahm I Senate . Later he was consul of Turkey in Gdansk.

Because of his Jewish origins, he was exposed to persecution after the Nazis came to power . He therefore emigrated to London in 1938, where he lived until his death.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdL, the end of parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic during the Nazi era: political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945; a biographical index / [Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties], Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5189-0 , p. 13, item 94
• Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 334