Conrad Schroeder

Candidate poster for the Federal Parliament election 1983

Conrad Schroeder (* 22. November 1933 in Freiburg , † 27. September 2006 ) was a German politician of the CDU .

Life and politics

Conrad Schroeder was the son of the Freiburg architect Gregor Schroeder (1906–1976) and his wife Franziska, geb. Keller (1908–1979). He had three younger and one older sister. Until 1944 he attended the Emil Thoma elementary school in Freiburg, then an elementary school in Schwabmünchen . After attending the Freiburg Berthold-Gymnasium from 1945 to 1954, he graduated from the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich .

After studying law at the Albert-Ludwigs-University and subsequent legal doctorate (1970 with Martin Bullinger ), Conrad Schroeder initially worked in the Freiburg financial administration.

Schroeder was elected for the first time in 1971 for the CDU in the municipal council of Freiburg im Breisgau, to which he initially belonged until 1991. From 1976 to 1980 he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg , where he represented the direct mandate of the Freiburg II (West) constituency. Between 1980 and October 20, 1991, he was a member of the German Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Freiburg constituency . Sigrun Löwisch moved up for him in the Bundestag.

In 1991, Schroeder was appointed by the Baden-Württemberg state government as the successor to Norbert Nothhelfer as regional president of the Freiburg administrative district and held this office until his retirement in 1998. Sven von Ungern-Sternberg succeeded him in this office . Important concerns of Conrad Schroeder were the cross- border cooperation on the Upper Rhine, High Rhine and Lake Constance as well as the intensification and deepening of the Franco-German friendship . The French government made him a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Volunteering

with foundation founder Dr. Silvia Berk and her successor Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff , Galerie Libertas per Veritatem, Freiburg 1994

From 1999 to 2006 Schroeder was again a member of the Freiburg municipal council. In addition, he was president of the Freiburg Gymnastics Association from 1844 until his death . His successor in this office was former district president Norbert Nothhelfer in 2010. Conrad Schroeder was also President of the Freiburg Minster Building Association and the Euroinstitut in Kehl.

Conrad Schroeder was also committed to other cultural institutions. B. 1994 the gallery of the foundation Libertas per Veritatetem in Freiburg.

On its 75th birthday in 2008, the city of Freiburg awarded the Center Culturel Français Freiburg (CCFF) the addition of "Conrad Schroeder".

Honors

• 1980: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1993: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1998: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1995: Knight of the Legion of Honor
• 1995: Commendatore dell 'Ordine
• 1999: Commander of the Papal Order of Knights of St. Gregory the Great

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 781.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Schroeder Conrad. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved December 20, 2017 . 
2. ^ Freiburg: Norbert Nothhelfer is the new President of Turner. In: Badische Zeitung , April 9, 2010, accessed December 30, 2010.
3. ↑ Acta Apostolicae Sedis . Vol. 91, No. 11, 1999, p. 1099.

Web links

• Active in the political life of Freiburg for 35 years. City councilor Conrad Schroeder died at the age of 73. In: Official Gazette of the City of Freiburg , dated September 30, 2006, accessed on July 3, 2012
• Ceremonial speech on the renaming of the CCFF.