Alois Schnorr

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Alois Fidelis Schnorr (born February 14, 1896 in Mannheim ; † April 15, 1962 in Karlsruhe ) was a German banker and politician ( BCSV , CDU ).

Life and work

Alois Schnorr was born in 1896 as the son of a railway official and had three step-siblings. Schnorr attended elementary and commercial school in Mannheim from 1902, before completing commercial training by 1915. War and military service followed from 1915 to 1919, where Schnorr served as a sergeant in the infantry in Flanders and Galicia. Then Schnorr worked in Mannheim in the forwarding trade and in industry. From 1923 to 1938 he was director of the Volksbank in Staufen im Breisgau . In the course of the November pogroms in 1938 he left Staufen with his Jewish wife Helene , whom he had married in 1922, and moved to live with his brother in Todtmoos . He then worked as a freelance district representative for the building society of the Deutsche Volksbanken. In 1944/45 he did forced labor in Billroda as a Jewish employee . Schnorr returned to the Black Forest at the end of the war and settled again in Staufen. From 1945 until his death he was director of the Badischer Genossenschaftsverband .

In 1955, two years after the death of his first wife, he married again.

politics

Schnorr joined the BCSV after the Second World War , which later became the Baden regional association of the CDU. He was mayor of the city of Staufen in 1945/46 and was elected as a member of the Baden state parliament in 1947 , to which he was a member until 1952. From March 18 to April 25, 1952 he was Minister of Finance in the government of the state of Baden led by President Leo Wohleb .

Honors

  • 1952: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Honorary citizenship of the city of Staufen
  • Alois-Schnorr-Strasse in Staufen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Schnorr Alois Fidelis , leo-bw.de, accessed on February 22, 2014
  2. ↑ Hans Christof Wagner: Expelled because he did not want to bow down. Badische Zeitung, April 30, 2005, archived from the original on February 12, 2007 ; accessed on February 22, 2014 .
  3. ↑ On the 110th birthday. Staufen honors Alois Schnorr. In: Cooperatives in Baden. Member magazine of the Badischer Genossenschaftsverband eV Badischer Genossenschaftsverband, February 2006, p. 20 , archived from the original on August 20, 2007 ; accessed on February 22, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Schnorr, Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnorr, Alois Fidelis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and politician (BCSV, CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1962
Place of death Karlsruhe