Adolf T. Schneider

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Awarding of a citizen project prize by Adolf T. Schneider in 2016

Adolf Theo Schneider (born March 10, 1961 in Fremont , California ) is a German-American entrepreneur, reserve staff officer ( colonel ) and local researcher . He has lived and worked in Vallendar in Rhineland-Palatinate since 1986 .

Life and education

Schneider attended elementary school (Bernhard Honkamp School) in Welver , the Aldegrever grammar school in Soest and, from 1972, the municipal grammar school Bettina von Arnim in Dormagen , where he obtained the general higher education entrance qualification ( Abitur ) in 1980 .

From October 1981 to February 1985 he studied at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg (today: Helmut Schmidt University ) and graduated in February 1985 with a degree in mechanical engineering with a focus on processes and data processing. In 1994 he was awarded the designation " European Engineer " by the Fédération Européenne d'Associations Nationales d'Ingénieurs in Paris . In 1995 he completed the “Management of Managers Europe” course in Paris at the University of Michigan - School of Business Administration.

Professional activities

Military exercise 2016

armed forces

From 1980 to 1992 Schneider was an officer in the German Armed Forces for 12 years . He is a trained tank officer, worked in logistics after studying and from 1988 to 1992 in what was then the PSV battalion in Andernach. Schneider has been a reserve staff officer since 1992 and worked until 2011 as a consultant in the Federal Ministry of Defense - command staff of the armed forces. In 1998 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the Reserve and in 2012 to Colonel of the Reserve. He is a Colonel in the General Staff at the Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr in Cologne .

Schneider is a member and section head of the Koblenz section of the German Defense Association (DWT)

Entrepreneur

In 1990, Schneider founded Schneider + Partner in Vallendar, a consulting company in the field of organizational optimization, project management and interim management, as well as Schneider System GmbH, which has been operating as UWS Business Solutions GmbH since 2010 and whose shares he sold in 2015. Schneider is also the owner of the Wüstenhof agricultural estate, on which his family has lived since the 17th century.

Local history activity

Schneider has been a homeland researcher and collector for over 40 years. He supports u. a. the city of Vallendar in questions of homeland and family research and organizes annual exhibitions in the city museum operated by him. Schneider collects local and regional historical documents, books and objects and has built up an extensive collection from them and is the author of a number of publications on homeland and family research.

Activity for a peaceful and united Europe

Awarded the Mérite Européen to Adolf T. Schneider 2018

Beginning with student exchanges to England in the 1970s and officer exchanges with France , Schneider has been volunteering for a peaceful and free Europe since the 1980s . From 1994 to 2003 Schneider was Vice President and Managing Director of the Konrad-Adenauer-circle of liberal and European Relations (President: Parliamentary State Secretary retd. Roswitha Verhülsdonk ). In 1995 he was one of the founders of the Mérite Européen Freundes und Förderkreis Deutschland eV , which was initiated by the then President of the Bundestag, Kai-Uwe von Hassel , and is now vice-president.

University commitment

Schneider has been volunteering at both Vallendar universities since 1988, the Philosophical-Theological University of Vallendar (including advice and participation in the ethics institute, medical-ethical working group, strategy committee, finance committee) and the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (participation in the admissions committee, forum Medium-sized businesses as well as historical topics) and deals with ethical issues.

Honors

Works

author

Books

brochures

  • Benefit art auction. Friends of Sayn Abbey, Bendorf 2001.
  • Ortssippenbuch Vallendar of the Catholic parish of St. Marzellinus and St. Petrus 1823–1874. City of Vallendar, Vallendar 1995.
  • Benefit art auction. Friends of Sayn Abbey, Bendorf 1994.
  • Benefit art auction in favor of AIDS aid Koblenz. Verlag JU, Vallendar 1992.

Contributions

  • The painter Johann Jakob Ignaz Verflassen - died 150 years ago in Vallendar , in: Heimatbuch 2019, Kreisverwaltung Mayen-Koblenz, Koblenz 2018. ISSN 0944-1247.
  • Carl d'Ester - Bonner Rhenane, conductor and music director from Vallendar , in: Nachrichten der Bonner Rhenania No. 121, Corps Rhenania Bonn, Bonn 2018.
  • Europe want - to recognize its problems - to act for its realization. In: Hardthöhenkurier. K&K Medienverlag Hardthöhe, Bonn 2017. ISSN  0933-3355
  • Jean Koch: Landscape painter to Vallendar bey Thal Ehrenbreitstein. In: Heimatbuch 2018. Mayen-Koblenz district administration, Koblenz 2017. ISSN  0944-1247
  • Jan von Werth and the Battle of Weitersburg in 1637. In: Heimatbuch 2017. District administration Mayen-Koblenz, Koblenz 2016. ISSN  0944-1247
  • The Alkmaar church painter Alexander Kläsener from Vallendar. In: Heimatbuch 2016. Mayen-Koblenz district administration, Koblenz 2015. ISSN  0944-1247
  • Immediately before the papal election - Little Rome in Vallendar. In: Heimatbuch 2015. Mayen-Koblenz District Administration , Koblenz 2014 ISSN  0944-1247
  • The work of the d'Ester family in Vallendar. In: Heimatbuch 2014. Mayen-Koblenz District Administration , Koblenz 2013 ISSN  0944-1247
  • Vallendar - the oldest view of the city on the Rhine. In: Heimatbuch 2011. Mayen-Koblenz District Administration , Koblenz 2010 ISSN  0944-1247
  • Peter Berg - a genius from Vallendar in Texas 150 years ago. In: Heimatbuch 2010. Mayen-Koblenz district administration, Koblenz 2009 ISSN  0944-1247
  • Carl Ludwig Johann Nepomuk d'Ester - doctor for the poor, publicist and radical democrat. In: Heimatbuch 2009. Mayen-Koblenz district administration, Koblenz 2008 ISSN  0944-1247
  • City of Vallendar in the anniversary year - a gleanings. In: Heimatbuch 2008. Mayen-Koblenz district administration, Koblenz 2007 ISSN  0944-1247
  • Vallendar am Rhein - conferred city rights 150 years ago. In: Heimatbuch 2006. Mayen-Koblenz district administration, Koblenz 2005 ISSN  0944-1247
  • The history of the Schnatzenmühle and its inhabitants. In: 800 years of Weitersburg. Weitersburg parish, 2002.
  • The Schneider family from the Wüstenhof. In: WdGfFk letters. WdGfFk, Koblenz 1998.
  • The desert farm near Vallendar. In: WdGfFk letters. WdGfFk, Koblenz 1996.
  • Peter Berg - a Vallendar fate in Texas. In: WdGfFk letters. WdGfFk, Koblenz 1995.
  • The Goethe column on the desert courtyard near Vallendar. In: Heimatbuch 1995. Mayen-Koblenz district administration, Koblenz 1994. ISSN  0944-1247
  • The Rheinberg in Urbar. In: Heimatbuch 1994. Mayen-Koblenz district administration, Koblenz 1993. ISSN  0944-1247

editor

  • Vallendar on the Rhine in the mirror of old postcards. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1993, ISBN 3-89264-875-1 .
  • Schneider Systeme GmbH as editor of Günther Pees: Networked thinking in e-learning and distance training. Shaker Verlag , Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-8322-2296-0 .
  • as editor of Matthias von der Bank (editor and author): The artist family Verflassen between Baroque and Biedermeier , Petersberg 2019, Verlag Michael Imhof, ISBN 978-3-7319-0921-7

Web links

Commons : Adolf T. Schneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schneider + Partners website , last accessed on March 13, 2018.
  2. ^ Circular letter No. 20 Schneider from Wüstenhof near Vallendar , West German Society for Family Studies eV (Koblenz), December 1998, last accessed on March 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ A short excursion into history , Wüstenhof excursion restaurant website, last accessed on March 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ Voluntary museum makers keep Vallendar's history alive , Blick-aktuell.de from October 25, 2014, last accessed on March 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ Review of the history of the Rhein-Zeitung economy on June 16, 2011, last accessed on March 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ Example: Project days Europe - Europe on site in Vallendar , Konrad-Adenauer-Schule Vallendar, last accessed on March 13, 2018.
  7. ↑ Homecoming of a historical window , Blick-aktuell.de of June 17, 2014, last accessed on March 13, 2018.
  8. ↑ Handover 2016/2017 , Lions Club Vallendar website, last accessed on March 13, 2018.
  9. ^ Citizen Project Award 2015 , Lions Club Vallendar website, last accessed on March 13, 2018.
  10. ↑ 2018 Adolf T. Schneider , website Mérite Européen , last accessed on March 13, 2018.
  11. ↑ Vallendarare Adolf T. Schneider receives Mérite Européen , Schängel, local gazette for the city of Koblenz dated February 7, 2018, accessed on the Lions Club Vallendar website, last accessed on March 13, 2018.
  12. ↑ Award of Mérite Européen to Vallendarer Adolf T. Scheider , home of Echo Vallendar on February 8, 2018, accessed on the Lions Club Vallendar website, last accessed on March 13, 2018.
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personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Adolf T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Adolf Theo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American entrepreneur, reserve staff officer (colonel) and homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Fremont , California