Franz Paul Schneider

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Franz Paul Schneider (born June 30, 1902 in Poing , † June 23, 1970 in Würzburg ) was a German political scientist .

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Schneider studied political science and law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. With his doctorate on the subject of capital and the economy , he earned a doctorate in political science and economics (Dr. oec. Publ.) And then completed his habilitation in Berlin, where he worked with Max Sering . Drafted into the Volkssturm shortly before the end of the war , he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he returned to Bavaria in 1946. On January 1, 1947, Schneider became an associate professor for economics, statistics and finance, and in 1948 a full professor for political science at the University of Würzburg . He held this chair until his death. As a member of the law and political science faculty, he was a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Würzburg in 1948.

In public he appeared as a staunch opponent of rearmament and western integration . He participated in the campaign against the nuclear armament of the Bundeswehr ( fight against atomic death ) and pleaded for a reunited neutral Germany. Schneider spoke out in favor of seriously examining the possibilities of a German confederation , such as those brought into play from the GDR, among others. In this sense, in 1953 he was one of the founders of the " Fränkischer Kreis ", a political association that was directed against the European Defense Community , from 1956 to the editors of the magazine Blätter for German and international politics and in 1960 to the initiators of the German Peace Union of which he was a member of the national board and of which he headed the Bavarian regional association. In the 1969 federal election he was the top candidate for the Democratic Progress Campaign for the state of Bavaria.

Conflicts with the Bavarian Ministry of Culture

Public statements by Schneider and the Romanist Franz Rauhut at an event in the Würzburg student house on March 4, 1956 prompted the Bavarian Ministry of Education , which was then headed by the non-party August Rucker , to write an official letter to Richard Dietzel, the rector of the Würzburg University . Rucker instructed Dietzel to get a written statement from the two professors. Schneider had strongly criticized the armament of the Bundeswehr and compared Konrad Adenauer with Philip II of Spain : They had a "sharp but limited mind" in common, and as Philip II believed that the wrath of God had to sweep away Protestantism, was Adenauer convinced that world history would have lost its meaning if the communist system was maintained. Schneider and Rauhut protested against this request and invoked the basic right of freedom of expression , but the Bavarian Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner ( SPD ) stated that this could be an insult to Adenauer that was not covered by the constitution. The Minister of Education later announced that he was satisfied with the statements made by Schneider and Rauhut and that he would probably not take any further action.

In December 1959, Theodor Maunz ( CSU ), who had meanwhile become Bavarian Minister of Culture, announced in a press release that he had opened criminal proceedings ( disciplinary proceedings ) against Schneider. He accused him of membership in what he believed to be anti-constitutional or anti-state organizations, including the German Club in 1954 , and his support for the magazine elan . Karl von Westphalen protested vigorously on behalf of the German Club in 1954 against the claim that it should be classified as subversive. Nothing is known about the outcome of the disciplinary proceedings.

Fonts

  • Capital and business cycle . Diss. Munich 1930, printed Munich 1937.
  • On the theory of the gold standard . Habil. Munich 1937, printed by Fischer, Jena 1939.
  • Adolph Wagner as a financial theorist . In: Alfred Kruse (ed.): Economic theory and economic policy. A collection of treatises . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1951, pp. 293-308.
  • (Ed. With Werner Mahr :) Essays and treatises on economic theory and economic policy . Volume 1: Otto von Zwiedineck-Südhorst: People and the economy . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955.
  • Documents on the Göttingen Manifesto . (= Series of publications of the Franconian district, 1957: 1). Fulda Publishing House, Fulda 1957.
  • Freedom and social progress . In: Paul Mikat (ed.): Festschrift of the law and political science faculty of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg on the 75th birthday of Hermann Nottarp . Müller, Karlsruhe 1961.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Paul Schneider , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 41/1970 of September 28, 1970, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
  2. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 6 f. and 9.
  3. ↑ So poor. In: Der Spiegel , No. 41, October 6, 1969, p. 114 f. Online .
  4. ↑ Sharp, but limited. In: Der Spiegel , No. 27, July 4, 1956, p. 42f. Online .
  5. ↑ rearview mirror . In: Der Spiegel , No. 34, August 22, 1956, p. 46. Online .
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Franz Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Poing
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1970
Place of death Wurzburg