Rudolf Lily

Rudolf Lilie (born February 2, 1904 in Hamburg , † December 28, 1976 in Geesthacht ) was the local group leader of the NSDAP in Geesthacht.

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Rudolf Lilie was the first child of the master glazier Henry Lilie. The father opened Geesthacht's first glassworks a year after the son was born. Johannes Ritter, who was the medical director of the Edmundsthal Lung Sanatorium, advised him to do this. Henry Lilie bought a house at Bergedorfer Strasse 39 and moved the glazier there too.

Rudolf Lilie attended secondary school in Bergedorf . He then completed vocational training in his father's company from 1920 to 1923. He then did an internship with the art dealer Maria Kunde in Hamburg, whose husband Karl Prahl managed the business. Together with his brothers Otto and Harry, he took over the glass factory from his father, who had switched to the Hamburg Glass Guild. They added an art and bookshop to the business.

In the spring of 1930 Rudolf Lilie co-founded the local branch of the NSDAP in Geesthacht and took over its chairmanship. He left the management of the glazier to his brother Otto. From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament . In the early local elections in 1932 he entered the Geesthacht council and one year later took over the post of deputy district leader of the NSDAP. On July 4, 1933, he was elected Mayor Geesthachts. During his service time, the HEW settlement was created in the course of job creation measures. Since the explosives factories in Düneberg and Krümmel were also re-equipped, the number of unemployed in Geesthacht fell significantly. During this time all authorities, clubs, associations and institutions were brought into line. There were also numerous nocturnal arrests from Hamburg.

Lily's term of office ended with her resignation on March 24, 1937. The reason for this was Jewish ancestors in the family. For this reason, his close party friend Karl Gröper pushed ahead with a party expulsion process. The Hamburg Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann spoke then in Berlin with Adolf Hitler before who decided to Lily that the simple party membership should be limited. Lilie then worked as deputy managing director of the Landherrschaft Hamburg.

In 1941, the Wehrmacht called Lily for military service. He fought until the end of the war as a corporal in the Kiel naval command. He then spent some time in captivity at Gut Meischenstorf. The occupiers later interned him in the liberated Neuengamme concentration camp . The detention ended in November 1947. Since he mistreated political opponents on April 1, 1933 and should have been involved in their arrest, Lilie had to answer other defendants in Lübeck . The proceedings before the Arbitration Chamber ended in an acquittal. In doing so, Lilie presumably benefited from statements made by some earlier political opponents, including SPD members, who claimed to have been released from prison because of Lilie's commitment.

Rudolf Lilie then initially worked in the Mewes glazier in Bergedorf . He then took over his father's former glazier, which has been run by his widow since his brother Otto's death during the Second World War . A little later he received frequent visits from former political opponents who tried to win him over to local politics. Due to his political past, Lilie did not comply. In 1952 he passed the master glazier examination.

Rudolf Lilie was married to Herta Stoffregen, who was a younger daughter of the Geesthacht construction company Erdmann Stoffregen. The couple had four sons and one daughter.

literature

• William Boehart: Lily, Rudolf . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 189-190 .