Notary and lawyer Dr. Julius von der Wall

Else Lang (born on 05.04.1884 in Suhl) married Julius von der Wall, who was born on Norderney on 22.09.1872. He obtained his doctorate in law in 1901, passed the bar exam in 1902 and was a notary and lawyer at the Higher Regional Court of Celle from 1903. For a long time, he was the only Jewish lawyer admitted to this court. Their daughter Eva was born in 1908. In 1911, the family had the residential and commercial building at Mühlenstr. 25 planned and built. In 1921, von der Wall took on Dr. Manfred Herzfeld as a partner in his law firm, which operated extremely successfully until 1933. In 1933, Julius von der Wall was exposed to massive efforts that called his license to practice law into question. With the „Law on Admission to the Bar“ of April 7, 1933, the National Socialists imposed a professional ban on around 1500 of the approximately 4000 Jewish lawyers. Julius von der Wall fell under an exception that protected front-line soldiers of the First World War. However, he was stripped of his notary's office. Supported by denunciations, the President of the Higher Regional Court, von Garössl, endeavored to obtain a ban on representation against von der Wall. It was not until an ordinance implementing the Lawyers' Act of October 1, 1935 that his professional rights were also restored. However, due to the anti-Semitic boycott agitation, he was only able to run his law firm to a limited extent. Von der Wall sold his house in Mühlenstr. and moved with his wife to his partner Manfred Herzfeld in a rented apartment in Schwicheldtstr.19A in 1934. Von der Wall's daughter Eva had already emigrated with her husband, Walter Kaufmann, at the end of August 1933, and Julius and Else von der Wall followed their daughter and son-in-law to Amsterdam even before Jewish lawyers in Germany were banned from practicing law in September 1938. But the escape could not save the couple; they were deported and, like their daughter Eva, killed in Auschwitz.

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