Fritz Schuster

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Fritz Schuster (born April 19, 1916 in Spiesermühle , † April 14, 1988 in Saarbrücken ) was a German politician ( DPS , CDU ).

Life

Schuster attended the elementary school in Kölln (today part of Köllerbach ) and the secondary school in Saarbrücken . After his school leaving examination in 1937, he completed his duty to work in the Reich Labor Service and then did his military service in the Wehrmacht . He took part in the Second World War as a soldier and was taken prisoner of war in September 1944.

After his release from captivity in September 1946, he studied law in Mainz . He passed his first state examination in law in 1949 and his second in December 1952. He then worked briefly as a judge at the Saarbrücken regional court . In 1954 he was admitted to the bar, from 1955 to 1956 he headed the legal department of the Saarland Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

He has a grave of honor in the cemetery in the Saarbrücken district of St. Johann .

politics

Schuster was initially a member of the Saar Democratic Party (DPS), which became the Saarland Regional Association of the FDP after the Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1970 he joined the CDU. From December 18, 1955 to January 2, 1961, Fritz Schuster was a member of the third state parliament of Saarland . From January 10 to December 17, 1956 he was Saarland's Minister of the Interior in the Ney cabinet , and from 1956 to 1976 Schuster was Lord Mayor of Saarbrücken.

literature

  • Hanns Klein: Short biographies of the mayors of (old) Saarbrücken, St. Johanns, Malstatt-Burbachs and the city of Saarbrücken . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region, XIX, Saarbrücken 1971, pp. 510-538. To Schuster p. 533f.

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