Erwin Schoettle

Award of the Federal Cross of Merit by Kai-Uwe von Hassel to Erwin Schoettle (right), 1969

Erwin Schoettle (* 18th October 1899 in Leonberg , † 25. January 1976 in Baden-Baden ) was a German politician of the SPD and exiled resistance fighters against the Nazis .

Life

Grave of Erwin and Helene Schoettle

The trained printer and the son of a shoemaker had to leave the grammar school prematurely because of the poverty of his parents, took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1917 and attended an arts and crafts school from 1919 to 1920. In 1925 he married Helene Schoettle (née Oßwald). As a member of the SPD, he had to flee Germany in 1933 and stayed in St. Gallen until August 1939, then in exile in London. In 1946 he came back to Stuttgart as co-editor of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and from 1946 to 1949 he edited the socialist monthly issues that appeared there.

He died at the age of 76 in Baden-Baden. His grave is in Department 20b at the Stuttgart Forest Cemetery .

Political party

Schoettle joined the SPD in 1919 and, after 1920, was state chairman of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) in Württemberg and employed by the party newspapers Schwäbische Tagwacht and Esslinger Volkszeitung . Since 1927 in the state executive committee of the Württemberg SPD, he became party secretary in Stuttgart in 1931 and worked there closely with Kurt Schumacher . In exile he headed the Sopade border secretariat for south-west Germany from St. Gallen, Switzerland, from 1933 to 1939 , and was also a member of the Neu Beginnen group , whose London group he headed from late 1939. Schoettle played an important role in founding the Union of German Socialist Organizations in Great Britain , of which he was a board member. From 1947 to 1962 he was state chairman of the SPD in Württemberg-Baden and from 1952 in Baden-Württemberg , he was a member of the SPD federal executive committee from 1948 to 1968, from 1958 additionally to the party presidium and later to the party arbitration commission.

MP

Erwin Schoettle was a member of the last Württemberg state parliament in 1933, and he did not attend its only session on June 8, 1933 in order to avoid arrest.

From 1946 to 1947 Schoettle was a member of the first state parliament of Württemberg-Baden . He was then from 1947 to 1949 a member of the Economic Council of the Bizone , where he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and chairman of the main committee.

In the first federal election he was directly elected to parliament in Stuttgart and remained a member of parliament until 1972. While he was posted on the state list in 1953 and 1957 , he was able to recapture the direct mandate in his constituency in 1961 and was directly elected in the neighboring constituency of Stuttgart I in 1965 and 1969 . During his parliamentary membership he was chairman of the Committee on Budgets from 1949 to 1969 and then until 1972 of the Committee on Election Review, Immunity and Rules of Procedure.

From March 13, 1951 to 1957 and from March 3, 1964 to 1965, he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and from 1953 to 1961 also chairman of the parliamentary group budget and finance. From October 17, 1961 to October 20, 1969, he was Deputy President of the Bundestag . 1961 to 1965 Schoettle was chairman of the budget sub-committee of the Bundestag Presidium.

Along with Rudolf Vogel ( CDU ), Martin Blank ( FDP ), Wilfried Keller ( GB / BHE ) and Heinrich Schild ( DP ), Schoettle was one of the first members of the trust committee for the secret budget of the federal intelligence services , which first met on February 22, 1956 .

After the federal election in 1972 , Schoettle left parliament.

Publications

Permanent opposition or real alternative. The problem of social democracy. In: The present. 1953, issue 196, pp. 792-794.

honors and awards

1955 Big Federal Cross of Merit with Star, 1963 the shoulder ribbon
1969 Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1975 honorary citizen of the city of Stuttgart
1975 Medal of Merit from the State of Baden-Württemberg

Erwin-Schoettle-Platz in Stuttgart-Heslach and Erwin-Schöttle-Strasse in his birthplace Leonberg were named after Schoettle .

literature

Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , reviewed and supplemented edition, Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 223ff.
Walter Nachtmann: Erwin Schöttle. Border Secretary of the Social Democrats for Württemberg. In: Michael Bosch (editor): The resistance in the German southwest 1933-1945. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1984, pages 153-161.
Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 825 .
Olga Zimmermann: Erwin Schöttle and the resistance against the Nazi regime. Online at: https://zeitreise-bb.de/schoettle/pdf

Web links

Commons : Erwin Schoettle - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (= Jost Dülffer, Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Wolfgang Krieger, Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]: Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Researching the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 356 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schoettle, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leonberg
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1976
Place of death	near Baden-Baden

[1] Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (= Jost Dülffer, Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Wolfgang Krieger, Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]: Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Researching the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 356 .