Julius Reiber

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Julius Georg Berthold Reiber (born July 12, 1883 in Gießen ; † September 21, 1960 in Darmstadt ) was a Hessian politician ( DDP , RDP , SPD ) and a former member of the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse in the Weimar Republic .

Life

Julius Reiber was the son of the postman Georg Reiber (1852-1902) and his wife Anna nee Kutt (1856-1935), who came from Upper Hesse. He grew up in Mainz . There he attended elementary and secondary school.

Julius Reiber attended the teachers' seminar in Alzey from 1900 to 1903 and then became a teacher in Mainz . First he taught at an elementary school and then from Whitsun 1904 to Easter 1912 at the preschool of the Oster-Gymnasium (today: Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium ). Then he was employed at an elementary school in Mainz. As a soldier, Reiber was in Ypres and Verdun from February 1915 to August 1916 and spent several months in the hospital after being wounded.

Reiber was active in the liberal political camp since 1905. He joined the German Democratic Party in 1918 and fought against efforts to turn the occupied area around the Mainz zone into a buffer state. On June 1, 1919, he was arrested by the French occupation authorities in Mainz and, after imprisonment for several days, expelled to Darmstadt.

From October 13, 1920, he worked as a teacher at the elementary school and on April 1, 1922, he was rector of the balloon school in Darmstadt. In 1925 he was elected first chairman of the Hessian state teachers' association. He was released from school service on August 1, 1933 by the new rulers.

From 1933 to 1945 he carried out various activities. These included u. a. the representation of a wine shop, insurance advertiser, collaboration in a cartographic art institute and finally assistant in a Darmstadt bookstore.

Reiber had been with Katharina born on December 26, 1911. Married young. Julius Reiber was Protestant. Their son Kurt (born 1914) has been missing in East Prussia since February 1945.

Julius Reiber was a passionate chess player. In 1909 he was one of the founders of the Mainz chess club in 1909 (today: Chess Department 09 of TSV Schott Mainz ) and was its first secretary until 1920.

politics

Julius Reiber was a member of the DDP and for these four electoral terms from January 1919 to November 1931 a member of the Hessian state parliament. In the state parliament, Reiber was the long-time leader of the DDP parliamentary group. At the request of him and Wilhelm Henrich , the state parliament founded the Georg Büchner Prize on August 8, 1922 .

The merger of the DDP to form the German State Party led to a crucial test. As a representative of the left wing of his party, Julius Reiber joined the Radical Democratic Party together with Johann Eberle in 1931 . In the 1931 state parliament elections, the Radical Democratic Party only received 0.6% of the vote and failed to make it into the state parliament. This meant that Julius Reiber could not defend his mandate either. In the time of National Socialism he could not continue his political work. In 1933 he became a member of the SPD.

In March 1945 he was appointed acting mayor of the city of Darmstadt. His task was u. a. the development of the school system in Darmstadt. In July 1946 he was elected to this office by the municipal council. From 1948 he was active in the city council. From 1952 to 1956 he was head of the city council and from 1951 to 1958 the first president of the Heinerfest .

Honors

For his services he received the Great Order of Merit of the FRG. Julius-Reiber-Straße (formerly: Lagerhausstraße) in Darmstadt is named after him. It lies in an honorary grave of the city of Darmstadt on the old cemetery (grave site: II N 177).

literature

  • Manfred Efinger : Mainz chess club. Schott chess department. 100 years 1909-2009, Mainz 2009.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 304.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 698.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 215.
  • Judith S. Ulmer: The history of the Georg Büchner Prize, 2006, ISBN 3-11-019069-9 .
  • Sabine Welsch: Julius Reiber In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt, Stuttgart 2006, p. 744.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Liepach: Radical Democrats in the Middle - The RDP in the Hessian state elections in 1931; in: Historical Social Research, Vol. 22 - 1997 - No. 3/4, 150 ff. ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.5 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hsr-trans.zhsf.uni-koeln.de
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