Julius Lippmann (22 July 1864 – 13 November 1934) was a German liberal politician, a member of the Prussian Parliament and the Weimar National Assembly. He served as governor of the Province of Pomerania from 1919 to 1930.
Julius Lippmann | |
|---|---|
| Member of the town council of Stettin | |
| In office 1900–1918 | |
| Member of the Prussian House of Representatives | |
| In office 1908–1918 | |
| Constituency | Stettin |
| Weimar National Assembly | |
| In office 1919–1920 | |
| Oberpräsident of the Province of Pomerania | |
| In office 1 April 1919 – 31 March 1930 | |
| Preceded by | Georg Michaelis |
| Succeeded by | Carl von Halfern |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 July 1864 Danzig, West Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | 13 November 1934 (aged 70) Berlin, Germany |
| Political party | Free-minded Union Progressive People's Party (Germany) German Democratic Party (DDP) |
| Occupation | lawyer |
Lippmann was born in Danzig, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, his father was a Jewish cantor in the Jewish Community of Danzig.[1] Lippmann attended the Academic Gymnasium Danzig and started to study classical philology at the University of Berlin, but soon switched to law.[2][3]
Lippmann started to practise as a lawyer in Stettin (Szczecin) in 1892, as a member of the Free-minded Union he was elected to the town council of Stettin in 1900. He became a member of the Prussian House of Representatives in 1908 and joined the Progressive People's Party (DDP) in 1910. He was the deputy chairman of the DDP fraction in the Prussian Parliament. Lippmann was elected a member of the Weimar National Assembly on 19 January 1919. On 1 April 1919 he followed Georg Michaelis as "Oberpräsident" (governor) of the Province of Pomerania, the only liberal politician to hold this position.[1][3]
In 1927 Lippmann became honorary senator of the University of Greifswald, he retired on 31 March 1930 as Oberpräsident and started to lecture on administrative sciences in Greifswald later that year. Though Lippmann had converted to Lutheranism, he was attacked by Nazi students for his Jewish descent. In April 1933 Lippmann ceased his lectures and was formally dismissed on 25 July 1933 on his own demand after he had received a Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service questionnaire.[1][4][5]
Facing further anti-semitic persecution Lippmann moved to Berlin, where he died in 1934.
References
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- ^ "Reichstags Abgeordnetendatenbank" (in German).
- ^ a b Heitmann, Margret; Schoeps, Julius H.; Neubach, Helmut (1995). "Ich halte fern dem ganzen Land jedes Verderben" – Geschichte und Kultur der Juden in Pommern. Haskala – Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Bd. 15 (in German). Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Moses Mendelsohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien; Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institut für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte. pp. 345 ff. ISBN 3-487-10074-6.
- ^ Kohl, Hannelore (2008). Ein Frauenstudium in Umbruchzeiten – Studienjahre in Greifswald 1931- 1934. Die OLG Präsidentin – Festschrift für Henriette Heinbostel (in German). Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag. p. 36. ISBN 978-3-8305-1444-2.
- ^ Inachin, Kyra T. (2008). Die Geschichte Pommerns (in German). Hinstorff Verlag. p. 162. ISBN 978-3-3560-1629-1.