page_title: Julius Curtius
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Julius Curtius / Early life
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Silberhochzeit im Hause des Reichsaussenministers Dr. Curtius! Das Silberpaar mit ihren beiden Töchtern.
context_page_description: Julius Curtius was a German politician who served as Minister for Economic Affairs and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic.
context_section_description: Julius Curtius was born on 7 February 1877 at Duisburg in what was then the Prussian Rhine Province.
  His father Friedrich (1850-1904) owned an ultramarine works at Duisburg and an alum works at Eichelkamp. Friedrich's brother was Theodor Curtius, a professor of chemistry. Julius' mother was Adele (1824–98, née Brockhoff).
  Julius married Adda Carp (died 1950), sister of industrialist Werner Carp, in 1905. They had two sons and three daughters.
  Curtius studied law at Kiel, Strasbourg and Bonn and was awarded a doctorate at Berlin. In 1905, he started practicing law at Duisburg. After 1911, he began working on issues in the field of public policy (Staatswissenschaften) at Heidelberg. He served in the First World War, finishing at the rank of Hauptmann (captain) of the Landwehr and Batterieführer and was awarded both Iron Crosses. He remained at Heidelberg where he also was a member of the city council (Stadtverordneter) until 1921. He then worked as a lawyer at the Kammergericht Berlin. He mainly represented (also as a member of supervisory boards) firms in the steel and coal, potash and railway rolling stock businesses. From 1920 to 1932, he was a member of the Reichstag for the German People's Party (DVP).
caption: Julius Curtius with his wife and two daughters, 1930
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