Georg Schulhoff

Georg Schulhoff (born December 1, 1898 in Budapest ; † June 5, 1990 in Düsseldorf ), long-time President of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts, was Vice President of the Central Association of German Crafts (ZDH) and German politicians ( CDU ) from 1949 to 1978 .

Life

Stumbling stone laying for Blanka and Wilma Fürst, Erasmusstraße 18 (2018)

Large corner house Düsselkämpchen 2, built in 1931, Düsseldorf-Düsseltal (2019)

He was the owner of a craft business (heating, ventilation and sanitary installation), which he founded in Düsseldorf in 1926 after studying engineering. Schulhoff was president of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts for 38 years (1948 to 1985) and, as chairman of the Rhenish-Westphalian Association of Craftsmen, spokesman for the crafts in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Schulhoff is considered to be one of the co-founders of a nationwide joint political interest representation of the craft in the Central Association of German Crafts (ZDH), supported by both the chambers of crafts and the professional associations , of which he was vice-president from 1949 to 1978.

As a victim of the Nazi regime, Schulhoff was half-Jewish and had to close his business in the 1930s, he went into hiding in the last years of the war.

In 1943, the clerk Blanka Fürst and her sister Wilma, who lived on the second floor, were deported from Schulhoff's house at Erasmusstrasse 18 to Theresienstadt and from there to Auschwitz. The textile representative Ludwig Geisler (66 years old) and his wife Margarethe, née Meltzer (60 years old), who also lived on the 2nd floor, had been deported to Minsk on November 10, 1941.
Schulhoff also owned the so-called " Judenhaus " Düsselkämpchen 2. Here Oskar Manes, until 1933 chairman of the retail trade association and board member of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry , stayed for a short time in 1940 before he was deported from Adersstrasse in 1941. On November 10, 1941, fifteen people were deported to Minsk from Düsselkämpchen 2.

After the end of the war, he was involved in setting up independent self-government institutions for the craft sector as well as in building up the CDU in the Rhineland. The first post-war Düsseldorf city council was founded in his apartment in 1945. He then remained a member of the Düsseldorf City Council until 1962, was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament from 1950 to 1962 and a member of the German Bundestag from 1961 to 1972 . He was directly elected in 1961 in the Düsseldorf II constituency and in the Düsseldorf III constituency in 1965 , and in 1969 he entered the Bundestag via the state list .

Schulhoff was an honorary citizen of the city of Düsseldorf because of his services to the city of Düsseldorf and his often unconventional manner of dealing with political opponents. On September 18, 1986 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . On December 1, 1987, he was awarded the badge of honor of the West German Chamber of Crafts . A square in Düsseldorf-Bilk , where the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts is based, was named after him (Georg-Schulhoff-Platz). A Düsseldorf secondary school also bears his name.

His son Wolfgang Schulhoff continued the installation business in Düsseldorf and was a member of the Düsseldorf City Council from 1969 to 1983 and a member of the German Bundestag from 1983 to 2002, and from 2003 until his death in the office of President of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts, successor to his father.

literature

• Rainer S. Elkar , Werner Mayer: Handicraft - A career. Crafts on the Rhine and Ruhr in the 20th century. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-7700-1126-0 , 118-133.
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 791.

Web links

• Who was Georg Schulhoff actually? , on georg-schulhoff-realschule.de
• Homepage of the Georg-Schulhoff-Realschule
• Short biography of Georg Schulhoff , former member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Georg Schulhoff at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Mayer: 1933 to 1953: Second World War and Economic Miracle, on hwk-duesseldorf.de, accessed on August 4, 2020
2. ↑ Erasmusstraße 18, E Schulhoff, Georg, Dipl.-Ing. and residents, in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1940 , p. 115 ( uni-duesseldorf.de )
3. ↑ Düsselkämpchen 2 (E Schulhoff, Georg, Erasmusstraße 20) address the city Dusseldorf 1939 , p 106 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ); Address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1940 , p. 99 ( uni-duesseldorf.de )
4. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .