Julius Leber (born 16 November 1891 in Biesheim, Alsace), died 5 January 1945 in Berlin) was a German politician and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Capital Strasbourg Land area¹ 8,280 km² Regional President Adrien Zeller (UMP) (since 1996) Population  - Jan. ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city; down from 4. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

Life

Julius Leber was born out of wedlock to Katharina Schubetzer and later adopted by her mason husband Jean Leber. Leber ended his school days in Breisach in 1908 with a Mittlere Reife qualification from a vocational high school, having completed training in salesmanship in a wallpaper factory in Breisach. From 1910, he attended an Oberrealschule (a higher vocational school) and also wrote newspaper reports. To finance his training, he worked as a tutor. the Square and Compasses Freemasonry is a worldwide fraternal organization. ... Breisach is a city with approx. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Japanese word for a high school is kōtōgakkō (高等学校; literally high school), or kōkō (高校) in short. ... Salesman is a 1969 cinema verité documentary film which follows four salesmen of expensive Bibles door-to-door in a low-income neighborhood which cannot afford expensive Bibles. ... Wallpaper is material which is used to cover and decorate the interior walls of homes, offices, and other buildings; it is one aspect of interior decoration. ... A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is a large industrial building where workers manufacture goods or products. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... // English Secondary Schools In English Secondary Schools the Form Tutor is similar to an American Home Room Teacher. ...

After his Abitur in 1913, Leber studied national economics and history in Strasbourg (then Straßburg, Germany) and at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. In this year, he also joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands; SPD). In 1914, with the outbreak of the First World War, Leber volunteered for military service. Abitur (official term in Germany: allgemeine Hochschulreife) is the word commonly used in Germany for the final exams young adults (aged 18 or 19) take at the end of their secondary education, usually after 12 or 13 years of schooling (Britain: A-levels). ... Link title1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... U.S. Economic Calendar Economics at the Open Directory Project Economics textbooks on Wikibooks The Economists Economics A-Z Institutions and organizations Bureau of Labor Statistics - from the American Labor Department Center for Economic and Policy Research (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) - Economics material from the organization... ... City motto: – City proper (commune) Région Alsace Département Bas-Rhin (67) Mayor Fabienne Keller (UMP) (since 2001) Area 78. ... Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg was founded 1457 in Freiburg by the Habsburgs. ... SPD redirects here. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Military service is service in the armed forces of a nation or the military arm of a political organization. ...

As a soldier, he was wounded twice, promoted to lieutenant, and served after the war in the Reichswehr (regular army) with border security troops in the east. At the time of the Kapp Putsch in 1920, he took the Weimar Republic's side. Afterwards, he quit the Reichswehr in protest, as some of its leaders had been behind the putsch. A Norwegian soldier (a Corporal, armed with an MP-5) A soldier is a person who has enlisted with, or has been conscripted into, the armed forces of a sovereign country and has undergone training and received equipment to defend that country or its interests. ... A Lieutenant is a military, paramilitary or police officer. ... The Reichswehr (literally National Defence or National Militia) formed the military organization of Germany from 1918 until 1935, when the government rebranded it as the Wehrmacht (Defence Force). ... The word Putsch literally means a thrust or blow. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic IPA (German Weimarer Republik). ... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ...

In his further studies after leaving the Reichswehr, Leber received a doctorate from the University of Freiburg.

In 1921, Leber became the editor-in-chief of the social-democratic newspaper, the "Lübecker Volksboten" – for which the then-student Willy Brandt also wrote in the early 1930s – and from 1921 to 1933 he was also a member of Lübeck city council. As a member of the Reichstag from 1924, he concerned himself above all with defence politics. 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Willy Brandt, Time Magazines Person of the Year, 1970. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Statistics State: Schleswig-Holstein District: Independent city Area: 214. ... A city council is the most common style of legislative government in a city or town. ... The Reichstag is both an institutional assembly and a specific building. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

After Hitler seized power in 1933, there was an attempt on Leber's life, after which he was seized, under pressure from Lübeck's workforce freed, and then arrested anew in March. From 1933 until 1937, Leber was held in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, having been declared a "dangerous opponent of the régime". After his release, he worked as a coal dealer in Berlin-Schöneberg, which camouflaged his more important rôle in the resistance to the Nazi régime, in which he was supported by, among others, Gustav Dahrendorf – Ralf Dahrendorf's father – Ernst von Harnack, and Ludwig Schwamb. Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... Murder is both a legal and a moral term, that are not always coincident. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Arbeit Macht Frei gate Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp in Germany, operating between 1936 and 1950. ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city; down from 4. ... Schöneberg is a district of Berlin. ... Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf (born May 1, 1929) is a German-British sociologist, philosopher and politician. ...

In 1940, Leber sought contact with the armed forces' leadership and got to know Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg. Thereafter, he was also in contact with Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and the Kreisau Circle around Helmuth James Graf von Moltke. Stauffenberg's circle foresaw Leber as Germany's new Interior Minister after their planned coup d'état. 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Image:Claus-von-stauffenberg. ... Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (July 31, 1884 _ February 2, 1945) was a conservative German politician and opponent of the Nazi regime. ... The Kreisau Circle (German: Kreisauer Kreis) was the name the Gestapo gave to a group of Germans centering around the Kreisau estate of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke in order to envision an alternative to Nazism. ... Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (March 11, 1907-January 23, 1945) was a German jurist and member of the Kreisau Circle. ... A coup détat (pronounced /ku de ta/), or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ...

After being betrayed by an informer among an underground Communist group led by Anton Saefkow, with whom he had sought contact, Leber was arrested by the Gestapo on 5 July 1944, fifteen days before Stauffenberg's attempt on Hitler's life at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia. On 20 October, Leber was the accused in a show trial before the Volksgerichtshof, alongside Adolf Reichwein, Hermann Maass and Gustav Dahrendorf. Leber was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out on 5 January 1945 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... The Deaths Head emblem, often used as the insignia of the Gestapo The   Gestapo? (acronym of Geheime Staatspolizei; secret state police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ... July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The July 20 Plot was a failed coup détat which involved an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. ... One of larger bunkers in Wolfsschanze complex. ... East Prussia (German: Ostpreu en; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: Восточная Пруссия — Vostochnaya Prussiya) was a province of Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... The term show trial serves most commonly to label a type of public trial in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt of the accused: the actual trial has as its only goal to present the accusation and the verdict to the public as an impressive example and... The Volksgerichtshof (German for Peoples Court) was a court established by Hitler after the Reichstag fire to handle those accused of political criminal offences, such as treason. ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Plötzensee is a lake in Berlin with an area of 7. ...

Literature

• Dorothea Beck, Julius Leber. Sozialdemokrat zwischen Reform und Widerstand, München (Siedler) 1983.