Carl-Anton Schaefer

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Carl-Anton Schaefer (born June 19, 1890 in Zweibrücken , † January 29, 1974 ) was a German politician ( GB / BHE , later CDU ).

From 1953 to 1961 he was finance minister and from 1953 to 1954 Minister of Justice of Schleswig-Holstein .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1909, Schaefer attended the Cologne Commercial College , which he left in 1911 as a business graduate . In 1913 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with the thesis "Aims and Paths for the Young Turkish Economic Policy" . He then worked for Deutsche Petroleum AG in Berlin until 1915 and then headed the German-Turkish economic center in Berlin. In the years 1915 and 1917 to 1918 Schaefer took part in the First World War as a soldier . From 1917 to 1920 Schaefer was a research assistant at the management of the Disconto-Gesellschaft Berlin . In 1920 he became an authorized signatory in the Hamburg branch of the Bank of Central and South America . In 1924, Schaefer moved to the Central Bank of the Free City of Danzig as Secretary General . At the same time he was a member of the board of directors of Danziger Hypothekenbank AG from 1924 to 1933 . In 1929 he became a member of the board and in 1933 President of the Bank of Danzig . After the Danzig central bank was dissolved, Schaefer moved to the board of directors of the Reichskreditkasse in the annexed Lodz in the Reichsgau Wartheland in September 1939 . From June 1940 until the end of the Second World War , Schaefer was German commissioner at the Banque de France . He was then interned in France until 1948. Nothing is known about its denazification . From 1951 to 1953 Schaefer was the general representative of the Wilh bank . Ahlmann in Kiel .

Carl-Anton Schafer was married and had one child.

Political party

Schaefer was initially a member of the GB / BHE, but became a member of the CDU on September 8, 1958.

MP

Schaefer was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament for only two weeks from the beginning of the third electoral term until his resignation on October 25, 1954.

He is on the national list drawn into the parliament.

Public offices

On November 7, 1953, Schaefer was appointed Minister of Finance and Minister of Justice in the state government of Schleswig-Holstein led by Prime Minister Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke . After Kai-Uwe von Hassel was elected as the new Prime Minister, Schaefer resigned from the office of Justice Minister on October 11, 1954, but remained Minister of Finance. From October 21, 1957 to October 27, 1958 Schaefer was also Deputy Prime Minister. On November 6, 1961, Schaefer resigned from the state government.

See also

literature

  • Carl Anton Schaefer , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 08/1962 of February 12, 1962, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Ingo Loose: Loans for Nazi crimes: the German credit institutions in Poland and the robbery of the Polish and Jewish population 1939-1945 . Munich: Oldenbourg 2007 Zugl .: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Schaefer, Carl-Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (GB / BHE, CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1974