Julius Lippmann

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
ConstituencyStettin
Weimar National Assembly
In office
1919–1920
Oberpräsident of the Province of Pomerania
In office
1 April 1919 – 31 March 1930
Preceded byGeorg Michaelis
Succeeded byCarl von Halfern
Personal details
Born(1864-07-22)22 July 1864
Danzig, West Prussia, German Empire
Died13 November 1934(1934-11-13) (aged 70)
Berlin, Germany
Political partyFree-minded Union
Progressive People's Party (Germany)
German Democratic Party (DDP)
Occupationlawyer

Lippmann was born in Danzig, West Prussia, German Empire (Gdańsk, Poland), 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
  1. Vierhaus, Rudolf (2006). biography (in German). Munich: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, Bd. 6. p. 481. ISBN 978-3-598-25036-1.
  2. "Reichstags Abgeordnetendatenbank" (in German).
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Inachin, Kyra T. (2008). Die Geschichte Pommerns (in German). p. 162. ISBN 978-3-3560-1629-1.
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