Julius Lippmann

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Julius Lippmann

Julius Lippmann (born July 22, 1864 in Danzig ; † November 13, 1934 in Berlin ) was a lawyer and politician. He was the only liberal chief president of the Pomerania province.

Life

Julius Lippmann attended high school in Gdansk and then began studying classical philology . From the summer semester of 1882 he studied law at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . There he belonged to the Normannia Landsmannschaft (left: 1923). After completing his studies, he had been a lawyer in Stettin since 1892 and was later appointed to the judiciary .

Julius Lippmann initially joined the Liberal Association . In 1900 he was elected to the Szczecin City Council. He was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives in 1908 , to which he belonged until 1918. In 1910 he became a member of the Progressive People's Party (FVP). He was the deputy chairman of the parliamentary group and devoted himself to water law issues in the House of Representatives. He played a decisive role in the preparation of the fisheries law. During the First World War he was a reporter on the budget commission for wartime economics. After the dissolution of the FVP at the end of 1918, he became a member of the DDP and was a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919/1920 .

The Prussian Minister of the Interior Paul Hirsch appointed him in 1919 to the position of Upper President of the Province of Pomerania . The influential German national and conservative forces in Pomerania opposed him with strong resistance, especially when it came to filling administrative and district administrative positions in which these circles had a say. Because of his Jewish descent, the converted Lippmann was exposed to anti-Semitic agitation.

Lippmann was committed to deepening the fairway between Szczecin and Swinoujscie and promoted the expansion of the Szczecin port. In 1927/28 he suggested an emergency action in favor of agriculture in Pomerania. He supported the library director Erwin Ackerknecht in expanding the library system in the province. In 1930 Lippmann resigned when he reached the age limit.

The University of Greifswald had made him an honorary senator as early as 1927 . From the winter semester of 1930 he was a lecturer in administrative theory, administrative law and policy in Greifswald. He escaped the emerging restrictions and reprisals against university lecturers of Jewish origin by releasing himself from his teaching position in 1933. Because of the particularly strong National Socialist terror in Stettin under the Gauleiter Wilhelm Karpenstein , Lippmann moved to Berlin. He died there in 1934.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 32–33.
  • Helmut Neubach: Jewish politicians from and in Pomerania. In: Margret Heitmann, Julius H. Schoeps (ed.): "Keep away from the whole country any ruin ..." History and culture of the Jews in Pomerania. Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1995, ISBN 3-487-10074-6 , pp. 345-247.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Goldschmidt: On the history of the Landsmannschaft Normannia in Berlin 1842-1902. Berlin 1902.
  2. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 248 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)
  3. Hannelore Kohl: A Women's Study in Times of Change - Study Years in Greifswald 1931–1934. In: Konstanze Görres-Ohde (Ed.): The OLG President. Commemorative letter for Henriette Heinbostel. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3830514442 , pp. 36-37. ( Google books ).