Hans Schäfer (politician)

Hans Schäfer (born December 6, 1913 in Széphely ( German Schebel ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , † July 19, 1989 in Braunschweig ) was a German lawyer and politician ( FDP , SPD ). He was Lower Saxony's Minister of Justice from 1970 to 1976 .

Life

After graduating from elementary school in 1921, Schäfer attended the Nikolaus-Lenau-Lyceum in Timișoara , where he graduated from the Baccalaureate in 1935 . From 1936 to 1937 he worked as a typesetter and from 1938 to 1941 studied law , political science and folklore at the universities in Breslau , Berlin and Göttingen . On March 1, 1941, he joined the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda as a research assistant and worked there in the Propaganda Replacement Department in Potsdam . After the Balkan campaign , he moved to Propaganda Squadron 5 in Belgrade in June 1941 and to the Southeast Propaganda Department there in May 1942. From September 1942 he was a member of the department staff of the Propaganda Department Southeast.

Schäfers joined the NSDAP in 1937 (alternative date December 15, 1938). From May to September 1940 he was a Sturmmann member of the Waffen SS . From March 1943 to 1944 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier , most recently as a sergeant. During the war he was wounded several times and was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class, the War Merit Cross II. Class and the Wound Badge for his services .

After the end of the war, Schäfer continued his studies in Göttingen, which he completed in 1946 with the first state examination in law. From 1947 to 1949 he completed his legal clerkship in Bückeburg , was admitted to the bar and worked as such in Braunschweig from 1951. In 1957 he was also licensed as a notary . On January 11, 1950, he was classified by the Braunschweig Main Committee for Denazification as "exonerated".

Schäfer joined the FDP and ran unsuccessfully for the Bundestag on their state list in the 1957 federal election . Two years later, in the state elections in 1959 , he was elected via the state list as a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, of which he was a member until 1978. From 1959 to 1961 he was a member of the FDP federal executive committee . He was a member of the FDP parliamentary group until October 22, 1961, then a month without a party and from November 23, 1961 a member of the SPD parliamentary group. In the state elections in 1963 , 1967 , 1970 and 1974 he won the direct mandate in the constituency of Braunschweig II. In parliament he was chairman of the committee for economics and transport and at the same time chairman of the electoral review committee.

After the break of the grand coalition and the formation of a single SPD government , Schäfer was appointed Minister of Justice to the government of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Alfred Kubel on July 8, 1970 . During his time as minister he was a member of the supervisory board of the Norddeutsche Landesbank . After Ernst Albrecht was elected as the new Prime Minister, he left the state government on February 13, 1976.

Hans Schäfer had been married to Gisela Munker since 1943. The marriage resulted in two daughters and a son.

Honors

1975: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 323.
Shepherd, Hans . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Saalfeld to Szyszka] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1062 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 798 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament. Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hanover 2012, pp. 197–198 ( landtag-niedersachsen.de ; PDF; 890 kB).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Lower Saxony State Parliament : Printed matter 16/4667. (PDF; 92 kB) The Nazi past of ministers and prime ministers of Lower Saxony. March 26, 2012, p. 4 , accessed December 21, 2012 .
↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Roots - Old Nazis in the Lower Saxony state parliament groups of the CDU, FDP and DP. (PDF; 1.8 MB) On the Nazi past of Lower Saxony state parliament members in the post-war period. P. 21 , accessed December 21, 2012 .

Web links

Photo by Hans Schäfer at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice

personal data
SURNAME	Shepherd, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (FDP, SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	December 6, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Széphely , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	July 19, 1989
Place of death	Braunschweig

[Drucksache-1] Lower Saxony State Parliament : Printed matter 16/4667. (PDF; 92 kB) The Nazi past of ministers and prime ministers of Lower Saxony. March 26, 2012, p. 4 , accessed December 21, 2012 .

[2] Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Roots - Old Nazis in the Lower Saxony state parliament groups of the CDU, FDP and DP. (PDF; 1.8 MB) On the Nazi past of Lower Saxony state parliament members in the post-war period. P. 21 , accessed December 21, 2012 .