Adolf Scheu
Adolf Scheu (born April 26, 1907 in Owen , Württemberg ; † December 20, 1978 in Wuppertal ) was a German politician ( SPD ).
Life
After attending secondary school in Stuttgart-Cannstatt, Adolf Scheu did a commercial apprenticeship and then worked as an industrial clerk and sales manager at various companies from 1925 to 1941. In 1941 he was arrested by the Gestapo and interrogated for several days, but then released again as no evidence of any acts hostile to the state could be proven. On October 1, 1941, Scheu became an authorized signatory at the Gottlob Espenlaub aircraft factory in Wuppertal. In 1945 he left the company and started his own business as an industrial and corporate consultant.
Adolf Scheu married Elisabeth Kretschmer in 1929 and had nine children with her. After her death in 1963, he married Almuth Reinke and had three other children with her.
politics
Scheu gained his first political experience in the early 1930s in the Christian Social Service , where he first came into contact with the later Federal President Gustav Heinemann . Together with this he was one of the founding members of the All-German People's Party (GVP) in 1952 . It was also Adolf Scheu who brought the future Federal President Johannes Rau to politics. After the lack of electoral success and the subsequent dissolution of the GVP, Scheu moved in 1957, together with Heinemann and several other party members, to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) , for which he then sat on the city council of Wuppertal from 1961 to 1970. 1969 was shy as a candidate for the constituency Wuppertal I in the German Bundestag elected. In 1972 and 1976 he was re-elected in his constituency. In the Bundestag, Scheu sat on the Petitions Committee , the Economic Committee and, most recently, the Council of Elders . Shy belonged to the Bundestag until his death. After his death, Karl-Heinz Walkhoff replaced him.
Honors
- 1972: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1976: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 736.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shy, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Owen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1978 |
| Place of death | Wuppertal |