Carl-Hubert Schwennicke

Carl-Hubert Schwennicke (born November 14, 1906 in Berlin ; † March 21, 1992 there ) was a German politician . From 1948 to 1956 he was the first state chairman and from 1950 to 1956 the first parliamentary group chairman of the FDP Berlin .

Life

Carl-Hubert Schwennicke (far right) during a public discussion at the RIAS on January 15, 1949

Schwennicke studied at the Technical University and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin with degrees in engineering and Dr. rer. pole. He was a member of the Corps Marchia Berlin and Austria . In 1933 he joined Siemens & Halske AG as a human resources specialist . He later became assistant director and in 1936 head of department. Under the " Wehrwirtschaftsführer " Wolf-Dietrich von Witzleben , Schwennicke rose to head of the employee department at Siemens in 1942 . Immediately after the end of the war he strove for a political career and on August 6, 1946 became chairman of the Berlin regional association of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD). Schwennicke was from 1958 to 1962 a member of the board of the Berlin State Insurance Company and until 1977 chairman of the board of the Federal Insurance Company for Salaried Employees .

Political activity

Schwennicke's political activity began in 1925 when he - then a member of the DVP  - became Gustav Stresemann's secretary . In 1946 he was elected chairman of the Greater Berlin regional association of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which he co-founded . From February 1948 he was chairman of the split-off LDP regional association in the western sectors of Berlin, from December 1948 chairman of the FDP . In this function he had a seat on the FDP federal executive from 1949 to 1957 . From 1946 to 1959 he was a member of the city council of Greater Berlin and until 1956 chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. In 1948 he was a co-founder of the East Office of the Berlin FDP and in the same year signed the founding appeal of the Free University . On March 17, 1955, the GDR State Security carried out an explosives attack on the West Berlin FDP chairman. His secretary was injured in the process.

In 1956 he took part in Berlin in the establishment of a nationwide split from the FDP, the Free People's Party (FVP), which was promoted by FDP federal politicians and joined the German party the following year , while the Berlin State Association under Schwennicke's chairmanship as the Free German People's Party (FDV ) continued to exist. In the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1958, the party failed because of the 5% hurdle and stopped working at the end of 1961. In 1971 Schwennicke joined the CDU.

Schwennicke's estate with documents on his work for the LDP / FDP and the FVP / FDV in Berlin is in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 249 (331 pages).

Web links

• Carl-Hubert Schwennicke in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Horlamus: German engineers and scientists between synchronization, world war and cold war (1933-1948) . Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-640-11426-9 .
2. ↑ Schuchardt: Dr. Carl-Hubert Schwennicke ... 80 years . In: Deutsche Corps-Zeitung 3/1987, p. 82.
3. ↑ March 17 (1955) in daily facts of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (at the DHM ).
4. ↑ Liberal goes to the CDU. ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 22, 1971.