Franz Schlunk

Franz Schlunk (born August 18, 1872 in Bremen , † October 16, 1936 in Bremen) was a German businessman, politician (CSP, DNVP) and Bremen senator .

biography

education and profession

Schlunk was the son of a merchant. After the early death of his father, he grew up in a pastor's family in Oerlinghausen . He completed a commercial apprenticeship in Berlin . In the commercial sector he worked in India for a decade . In 1903 he returned to Bremen. Together with Rudolph Gildemeister he founded the company Gildemeister & Schlunk , of which he was the sole owner from 1906. He was very active in the Friedenskirche in Bremen on Humboldtstrasse .

politics

Schlunk became a member of the Christian Social Party (CSP), a Christian-conservative and anti-Semitic party in the German Empire. In the Reichstag elections of 1912, he received only a few votes. After the First World War , he became chairman of the right-wing conservative German National People's Party (DNVP) in Bremen and then also in the Weser-Ems constituency. In 1922 he resigned from the chair after a dispute with the radical, anti-Semitic wing of the party. He had been a member of the Bremen citizenship since 1920 . On January 30, 1925, he became a member of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in Martin Donandt's cabinet . He resigned on February 10, 1928. In 1930 he left the DNVP and joined the Conservative People's Party , a moderate right-wing split from the DNVP, which disapproved of cooperation with the NSDAP. In 1933, therefore, his political activity ended. In 1930 he had also retired from his company.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .