Law office - Julius Prochownik

Julius Prochownik was born in 1873 in Bromberg in East Prussia. He studied law in Göttingen and was baptized as a Protestant. At first he worked in law firms in Munich and Passau. In 1901 he married his first wife Kathinka. In 1903 he settled in Donauwörth and opened a law office in Schustergasse, which was highly regarded for three decades. From 1911 he lived at Reichsstra&szlig 36 with his wife and children Luise (1902) and Hermine (1910). In 1915 his wife Kathinka died. In his second marriage he married Maria Anna, née Loibl (1892-1977), with whom he had three daughters: Magdalena, Susanne and Maria. From 1925 to 1927 Prochownik was a member of the Donauwörth City Council and served on the Audit Committee. Since the beginning of the Nazi era and the implementation of the boycott calls against Jewish businesses, a smear campaign against attorney Prochownik was carried out in Donauwörth. Graffiti on the wall of the house, insults and abuse against the Prochownik family were the order of the day. In 1939, after the worst abuses, including in a sanatorium in Günzburg, he was deleted from the list of lawyers. Julius Prochownik moved to Berlin to escape the repressions. On June 2, 1945, he died of exhaustion as a result of pneumonia.