Julius Pauly

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Julius Heinrich Pauly (born February 16, 1901 in Birkenfeld , † March 30, 1988 in Oldenburg ) was a German lawyer and politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

After attending grammar school in Birkenfeld, Pauly, the son of the postmaster Julius Pauly (1875-1945), began studying law , which he completed in 1923 with the first state examination. After passing the second state examination in 1927, he entered the Oldenburg state service in December 1927. He was first appointed to the District Court Council and worked in the following years at the District Courts in Brake and from December 1928 in Oldenburg . On April 1, 1929, he was appointed to the district judge .

Pauly joined the NSDAP on October 1, 1931 , where he quickly made a career as a lawyer. In early 1932 he became a local group leader in Oldenburg. From May to June 1932 he was a member of the Oldenburg State Parliament .

When the first National Socialist state government was formed in June 1932 under Prime Minister Carl Röver , Pauly served as Minister of State for Finance in the government of the Free State of Oldenburg from June 16, 1932 to May 6, 1933 . In the subsequent government led by Prime Minister Georg Joel , he was again Minister of Finance until May 15, 1933. He then took over the Ministry of Justice and Education (Ministry for Churches and Schools) from Heinz Spangemacher . He was in charge of the Ministry of Justice until its dissolution on December 4, 1934. After that he was Minister of Finance and for Churches and Schools.

Pauly tried to enforce the National Socialist worldview in schools and ordered the removal of church and religious symbols (crucifixes and Luther images) from public buildings and schools by means of the so-called Kreuzerlass of November 4, 1936. The decree triggered mass protests in the Catholic Oldenburger Münsterland, known as Kreuzkampf , which ultimately forced Prime Minister Röver to withdraw the decree on November 25, 1936 at a major event in Cloppenburg . Despite this setback, Pauly continued his anti-Catholic school policy in the next few years, including closing a number of Catholic religious schools and introducing religious education to disabled and non-denominational community schools . In the spring of 1938 there was a school strike in Goldenstedt, which was suppressed by the Gestapo and ended for a number of those involved in the Oranienburg concentration camp .

With the continuation of the Second World War , Pauly also became a soldier at the end of 1942, most recently with the rank of lieutenant . At the end of the war he became a prisoner of war and did not return to Oldenburg until autumn 1946. In his denazification process in 1950 he was classified in category III (less burdened person, but who had "significantly promoted" National Socialism). After that, Pauly was not taken back into the public service , but worked temporarily as a lawyer or as a legal employee of a law firm.

Pauly had been married to Erna, born in Birkenfeld , since 1928 . Tailor (* 1903). The couple had six children.

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SURNAME Pauly, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pauly, Julius Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Birch field
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1988
Place of death Oldenburg