Philipp Wilhelm Jung

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Philipp Wilhelm Jung (born September 16, 1884 in Nieder-Flörsheim , † September 9, 1965 in Worms ) was a German National Socialist politician .

Life until World War I.

Philipp Wilhelm Jung was the son of the elementary school teacher Adam Jung and his wife Katharina nee Weyerhäuser. He attended high school in Worms and from 1906 studied law in Heidelberg, Munich and Gießen. During his studies he became a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity in 1903 . In 1906 he passed the first state examination and, after his legal clerkship on December 9, 1912, the second state examination and then worked as a lawyer in Worms. On September 30, 1911, he married Stefanie Sofie, née Muxel, in Heidelberg.

Military service

From August 1914 Jung was a soldier in the German Army . Initially, he was employed as a platoon leader in the 2nd Baden Field Artillery Regiment No. 30 . He then was an adjutant in a field artillery department and an artillery commander on the Western Front . From the end of 1916 until the end of the war on November 11, 1918, he was battery leader . He was awarded both Iron Crosses and the Hessian Medal for Bravery .

Weimar Republic

After the war he worked as a lawyer again. In 1926 he was elected to the city council of Worms. Since 1927 he was the permanent defender of the NSDAP - Gauleiter of the Rhine Palatinate , Josef Bürckel and a member of the SA , in which he later rose to the rank of brigade leader . In 1930 he joined the NSDAP and in 1931 became NSDAP district leader of Worms.

In 1931 he was elected to the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse , in which he led the NSDAP parliamentary group from 1931 to 1933.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, he became President of the Hessian state parliament in 1933. After Wilhelm Ehrhard was deposed by the National Socialists, whom he was critical of, Jung was appointed provisional mayor of the city of Mainz . During his tenure, the liberation memorial was removed from Schillerplatz . In May he was replaced by Robert Barth .

Jung was State Councilor from March 1933 and then from September 20, 1933 appointed Prime Minister of the People's State of Hesse . In this position he replaced Ferdinand Werner , who was also a member of the NSDAP. Jung remained Prime Minister until March 1, 1935, when the " Reich Governor of the People's State of Hesse" Jakob Sprenger took over this function.

He was then president of the Saar Palatinate , before he was appointed mayor of Vienna on May 16, 1940 during the Second World War . He replaced Hermann Neubacher in this function on December 14, 1940 and was replaced by Hanns Blaschke on December 30, 1943 . This was preceded by conflicts between Jung and Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach . Jung applied for a transfer as an officer to the front, but this did not take place. Nothing is known about Jung's activities from 1943 until the end of the war.

Denazification and the post-war period

Philipp Wilhelm Jung and his wife were imprisoned in the Kornwestheim camp after the end of the war and their property blocked. His wife was released from prison on November 12, 1947 as part of the Christmas amnesty, and he himself was released on June 17, 1948. In the Arbitration Chamber proceedings , he was classified as a "minor offender". After the state of Hesse did not want to pay him a pension as a member of the government, there were legal proceedings at the Darmstadt Administrative Court , which ended with a settlement that obliged the state to pay. The property freeze was lifted on July 5, 1950. With the decision of the court of honor of the Frankfurt am Main Bar Association on May 16, 1951, he was again admitted to the bar and notary and subsequently worked in this profession in Wald-Michelbach .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 38-39.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 292.
predecessor Office successor
Hermann Neubacher Mayor of Vienna
1940 - 1943 		Hanns Blaschke
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Philipp Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Nieder-Flörsheim
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1965
Place of death Worms