Julius Lippmann

Julius Lippmann (22 July 1864 – 13 November 1934) was a German liberal politician, a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the Weimar National Assembly. He served as Oberpräsident (governor) of the Province of Pomerania from 1919 to 1930. After retiring from this post, he began lecturing at the University of Greifswald but left after being the subject of antisemitic attacks by Nazi students for his Jewish lineage.

Life Lippmann was born in Danzig, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, his father was a Jewish cantor in the Jewish Community of Danzig. Lippmann attended the Academic Gymnasium Danzig and started to study classical philology at the University of Berlin, but soon switched to law.

Lippmann started to practise as a lawyer in Stettin (today, Szczecin) in 1892 as a member of the Free-minded Union, and he was elected to the city council of Stettin in 1900. He became a member of the Prussian House of Representatives in 1908 where he would serve until its dissolution in 1918. He joined the Progressive People's Party (DDP) in 1910 and was the deputy chairman of the DDP faction in the Prussian parliament.

Facing further antisemitic persecution, Lippmann moved to Berlin, where he died in 1934.