Carl Schröter (politician)

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Carl Schröter (born May 29, 1887 in Neustadt in Holstein ; † February 25, 1952 in Kiel ) was a German politician ( DVP and CDU ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Kiel, Schröter studied philology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and the University of Halle . He then worked as a teacher in Kiel at a grammar school and at the marine college for administration and economics. In 1933 he was dismissed from the school service due to the " Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service " passed by the National Socialists and since then has worked as a private language teacher.

Carl Schröter was married and had one child.

Political party

Schröter was committed to the National Liberal Party until 1918 and also initiated the establishment of National Liberal youth associations. After the November Revolution of 1918, he was one of the founders of the German People's Party (DVP) in Schleswig-Holstein.

After the end of the Second World War , Schröter and others founded the Democratic Union (DU) in Schleswig-Holstein and in January 1946 also became its state chairman. In this function he played a decisive role in the connection of the Democratic Union to the CDU in February 1946 and was elected the first state chairman of the CDU in Schleswig-Holstein . He held this office until June 1951.

The minority of the DU under its deputy chairman Peter Christel Asmussen did not take part in the merger and founded the FDP - Schleswig-Holstein State Association in March 1946 .

MP

Carl Schröter was a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1924 to 1928 .

On February 26, 1946 he was appointed by the British occupying power to be a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament . Schröter was then also a member of the second appointed state parliament and was elected member of the state parliament from 1947 until his resignation on May 21, 1950 via the state list , where he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group and thus also opposition leader . Schröter was also a member of the Zone Advisory Council of the British Zone of Occupation in 1947/48 and of the Parliamentary Council in 1948/49 .

From 1949 until his death, he was a directly elected member of the Segeberg - Neumünster constituency, and finally a member of the German Bundestag and from January 17, 1950, he was deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .

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