Julius Lippert (9 July 1895-30 June 1956) was the Nazi Mayor of Berlin from 5 January 1937 to July 1940, succeeding Oskar Maretzky and preceding Ludwig Steeg.
Biography[]
Julius Lippert was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1895, and he was indoctrinated by anti-Semitic texts during his youth and served in the Imperial German Army during World War I, twice being wounded and ending the war as a lieutenant. He became involved with the national conservative DNVP during the Interwar period, and he participated in the assassination of Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau in 1922 before joining the NSDAP. He became the Reichskommissar of Berlin in 1933, and he purged the capital's government of opposition and was responsible for much of the early persecution of Jews in the city. He went on to serve as Mayor of Berlin from 1937 to 1940, and he was dismissed in 1940 for opposing Albert Speer's reorganization of the city. He joined the Wehrmacht and served as Commandant of Arlon, Belgium from March 1943 to August 1944, and he also organized radio propaganda in occupied Belgrade. He was captured at the end of the war, extradited to Belgium in 1946, and sentenced to six years of hard labor in 1951; he was released in 1952 and lectured at universities until his death in 1956.