Franz Schönbeck

Franz Schönbeck (born September 15, 1931 in Essen , † March 22, 2010 ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was Lord Mayor of Schwerin .

Life

Schönbeck was the eldest of three children of the bricklayer and active KPD member Willi Ernst Schönbeck and his wife Anna, geb. Gögel. Since the father was mostly imprisoned during the National Socialist regime, the mother moved in 1935 to live with her in-laws in Gumbinnen (East Prussia). Schönbeck attended elementary school there from 1937. After evacuation and flight, the family finally came to Ludwigslust (Mecklenburg) in 1945 via intermediate stops . Between 1946 and 1949 he was initially an apprentice, then an employee in the Ludwigslust district office. In 1948 he joined the SED. In 1949/50 he attended the workers and farmers faculty in Rostock with the aim of studying law afterwards, but was deregistered prematurely. From 1951 to 1952 Schönbeck was a clerk at the State Secretariat for Material Supply of the State Planning Commission in Berlin. Between 1952 and 1955 he studied at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He completed his studies with a degree in law.

From 1956 to 1960 he was head of the organization instructor department and secretary of the council of the Perleberg district , then from 1960 to 1962 he was head of the organization instructor department of the council of the Schwerin district . From 1962 to 1964 Schönbeck acted as chairman of the council of the Gadebusch district , from 1965 to 1969 as chairman of the council of the Lübz district . At the same time, he completed a postgraduate distance learning course in territorial economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1969 to 1971 he was Lord Mayor of the city of Schwerin . During his two-year term of office, the planning for the residential area Großer Dreesch , the industrial area Schwerin-Süd and the tourist development of the island Rabbitwerder fall . On April 22, 1971, he was recalled as Lord Mayor after differences with the SED district leadership. He then took on various functions in the district council, first in the district planning commission, then as head of the newly created control center for consumer goods, and finally from 1975 to 1990 as head of the office of the district assembly and the district council. At the time of the fall, he worked on the administrative restructuring, v. a. in building the state parliament administration. At the end of 1990 he was fired. In his functions in the councils of the districts, as mayor and later in the council of the district, he was either chairman of the election commission or deputy head of the election office. In the last parliamentary elections and local elections in 1990, he was in charge of the election office for the Schwerin district, as well as in the election of the first all-German Bundestag and the first state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on October 14, 1990.

Schönbeck was married three times. The first two marriages resulted in a total of three children. One of Schönbeck's daughters is the musicologist Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann .

After the reunification he published his memoirs ("As long as memories are still present ...", Schwerin: Verlag Reinhard Thon 1999), in which he expresses himself critically about various aspects of the politics of the GDR despite his still fundamentally approving attitude to socialism. a. on the manipulation of election results.

Works

• Franz Schönbeck: As long as memories are still present ... , Schwerin: Verlag Reinhard Thon 1999

literature

• Andreas Herbst :  Schönbeck, Franz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former Lord Mayor Franz Schönbeck has died . Press release from the city of Schwerin from March 26, 2010.