Eugen Schneider (District Administrator)

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Eugen Schneider (born October 26, 1898 in Gevelsberg ; † May 31, 1983 in Leverkusen ) was a German trade union official and district administrator .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a locksmith and participating in the First World War , Schneider worked in his learned profession until 1925, before attending the technical college for economics and administration in Mönchengladbach from 1925 to 1927. Then until 1933 he worked as a union secretary before this occupation after the seizure of power by the National Socialists lost and was unemployed. After a brief activity for the paint factories in Leverkusen in 1938 and 1939, he had to return to the Wehrmacht after the Second World War and was a soldier until 1940. Eugen Schneider, a member of the CDU from the very beginning, became managing director of the Chemical Industry Union in Leverkusen after the end of the war in 1945 , a position he held until 1962. From 1945 to 1948 he was also a member of the district assembly of the Rhein-Wupper district and was also a district administrator for two terms from October 28, 1946 to November 2, 1948. In addition, Schneider was a member of the city council in Leverkusen.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Landkreistag North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Documentation on the district administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1845–1991. Knipping, Düsseldorf 1992, p. 508.
  2. ↑ Manfred Huppertz (author): The district administrators and senior district directors of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis and its predecessor districts, documentation of the district archive of the Rheinisch-Bergisch Kreis , Bergisch Gladbach 2016, p. 68. online
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade union official and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Gevelsberg
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1983
Place of death Leverkusen