Siegmund Oppler

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Inscription for “Dr. jur. Oppler, Sigmund ”at the memorial for the murdered Jews of Hanover

Siegmund Oppler (born July 16, 1873 in Hanover ; died September 17, 1942 in Amsterdam ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Siegmund Oppler was the son of the architect Edwin Oppler, who came from a Jewish family , and Ella Oppler, née Cohen. and the youngest of the three or four Oppler's brothers, next to the painter Ernst Oppler and the sculptor and graphic artist Alexander Oppler also the doctor and internist Berthold Oppler .

Oppler studied law and received his doctorate in 1895. In early 1903 he settled as a lawyer in his hometown of Hanover.

During the First World War, Oppler initially worked free of charge in the municipal legal information office in Hanover until he went to war as a soldier in 1917. Before that, he was a founding member of the Kestner Society , which was founded in 1916 in protest against the official municipal art policy of Hanover , was elected to the board of the society and worked there - temporarily together with Leo Catzenstein - as an advisory board.

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , he was appointed notary in 1920 . In 1921 the periodical Prussian Statistics listed him as a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP).

From 1924 until 1933, Oppler also worked as the syndic of the Hanover stock exchange .

Within the Jewish community of Hanover , Siegmund Oppler participated in the management of the Jewish hospital and in the management of the Jewish retirement home . He also administered the Cohen Foundations .

After the National Socialists seized power and the law on admission to the legal profession , Oppler was banned from working as a notary in 1935, and in the same year he gave up his admission to the bar. In 1936 the magazine Deutsche Justiz read that “RA, Dr. Siegmund Oppler ”at the Hanover District Court and at the Hanover Regional Court .

After the November pogroms 1938 Oppler fled in April 1939 in the Netherlands to Amsterdam. After the Wehrmacht attacked the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg and in view of the impending deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp , Siegmund Oppler and his wife Lily Oppler committed suicide on September 17, 1942 in Amsterdam.

Commemoration

The names and fates of Siegmund and Lily Oppler have been engraved on a plaque on the memorial for the murdered Jews of Hanover near the opera house since 2004 .

Web links

Commons : Siegmund Oppler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Schulze : Oppler, (4) Siegmund , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 276f.
  2. ↑ a b c Andreas Heusler (edit.): Biographical memorial book of the Munich Jews. 1933 - 1945 , ed. from the Munich City Archive, Volume 2: (M - Z) , Munich: EOS-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8306-7280-7 and ISBN 3-8306-7280-2 , p. 230; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.), Hugo Thielen (edit.): Jewish personalities in Hanover's history , completely revised, expanded and updated new edition, Hanover: Lutherisches Verlagshaus, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7859-1163- 1 , pp. 125, 141f.
  4. ^ Prussian statistics. Official source work , ed. in informal booklets from the Royal Prussian State Statistical Office, Berlin: State Office, Volume 251 (1921), pp. 33, 64; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ Deutsche Justiz , issues 1-26 (1936), p. 106; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Peter Schulze: Oppler, Siegmund , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 490
personal data
SURNAME Oppler, Siegmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and notary, stock exchange syndicate and foundation administrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1942
Place of death Amsterdam