Ernst Schnitzler

Ernst Schnitzler

Ernst Schnitzler (born May 1, 1877 in Viersen ; † June 2, 1962 in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel ) was a German politician (center).

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Ernst Schnitzler was born in 1877 as the son of the entrepreneur Theodor Schnitzler. After attending primary and secondary school in Viersen, he studied at the Berlin School of Business . He received practical training at FW Grees in Viersen, the Weilerter Meer chemical factories in Uerdingen and the Büttner machine factory , also in Uerdingen.

In 1904 Schnitzler took over the management of the Sino-German Silk Industry Society in Tsingtau . From 1912 he held the office of director of the Rheinische Kampferfabrik in Düsseldorf.

From 1914 to 1918 Schnitzler took part in the First World War, in which he was employed as a pioneer and driver. In 1932 he came to prominence as the sole owner of the van Kerthoff & Co. in Reuss independently . At that time he held a number of offices at the municipal level: He became a member of the finance court (commercial judge) and a member of the industry committee of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and a city councilor in Düsseldorf.

In addition, around 1932/33 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Hanoverian iron foundry and machine factory .

Schnitzler was politically active in the Catholic Center Party . For this he sat from July 1932 to the summer of 1933 as a member of the Reichstag , in which he represented constituency 22 (Düsseldorf-Ost). As a member of parliament, Schnitzler voted, among other things, for the adoption of the Enabling Act of March 1933 introduced by the Hitler government , which formed the legal basis for the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship.

Web links

• Ernst Schnitzler in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schnitzler, Ernst , in the Reichstag Handbuch , vol .: 1933, Berlin, 1933, p. 254