Hans Schlange-Schöningen

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Hans Schlange-Schöningen, portrait photo in the Reichstag handbook 1930
Hans Schlange-Schöningen on a 1949 federal election poster

Hans Schlange-Schöningen (born November 17, 1886 at Gut Schöningen in Pomerania as Hans Schlange; † July 20, 1960 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German politician ( DNVP , CNBL , after 1945: CDU ). In the Weimar Republic he was Reich Minister in the Brüning II cabinet .

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Hans Schlange, who was a Lutheran , attended grammar school and then studied agricultural sciences at the University of Greifswald . He took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 and was wounded several times as an officer. After the war he managed the parental estate.

Schlange-Schöningen, whose place of origin was added to his birth name as early as the Weimar period, was a member of the Prussian Landtag for the DNVP from 1921 to 1928 , of which he was chairman of the regional association of the Pomeranian province . From 1924 to 1932 he was a member of the Reichstag . When Alfred Hugenberg was elected chairman of the DNVP in 1928, he moved in November 1929 to resign from the state chairmanship, resign from the DNVP parliamentary group and finally to leave the party. In 1930 he was elected to the Reichstag for the Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party (CNBL), which he had re-established as a German Rural People with other dissidents from the DNVP as well as politicians who had been elected on Rural People's lists in 1928 . He represented the party, which, with its 19 members in the Reichstag, played an important role for Reich Chancellor Brüning in its precarious majority , from October 1931 to June 1932 as Reich Minister without portfolio and Reich Commissioner for Eastern Aid in its second cabinet. During this time he also developed the plan to allow German settlers to emigrate to Brazil, which then resulted in the settlement of Rolândia . Schlange-Schöningen's son Joachim became a settler himself in Rolândia in 1933.

In the Reichstag elections of July and November 1932, the Rural People's Party became meaningless with 0.2 and 0.1% respectively, Schlange-Schöningen lost his mandate and his political activity ended for the time being.

In the time of National Socialism he worked as a farmer on his estate. He was in contact with the Kreisau district through Helmuth James Graf von Moltke and was designated as a possible food minister in the Beck / Goerdeler shadow cabinet in the event of a successful coup after the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 .

After fleeing from Pomerania to the West, Schlange-Schöningen was one of the founders of the CDU in Plön and Ostholstein in 1945 . In 1946/47 he was a member of the zone advisory board for the British zone of occupation . On the Board of Directors of the United Economic Area ("Bizone") he held the post of Director of Food, Agriculture and Forestry from 1947 to 1949, having previously headed the Central Office for Food and Agriculture of the British Zone. At this time, Schlange-Schöningen was considered the leading head of the CDU in northern Germany, which had a liberal-conservative basic orientation. But he did not have much influence in the federal CDU.

Although he did not run, he received a total of six votes in the first ballot in the election of the German Federal President in 1949 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 until June 9, 1950. In 1950, Chancellor Adenauer sent him to London , where he was initially German Consul General and from 1953 to 1955 German Ambassador to the United Kingdom . With Schlange-Schöningen, Adenauer apparently wanted to deport an uncomfortable potential competitor from federal politics.

family

Hans Schlange-Schöningen was the son of the manor owner Ernst Schlange (1851–1925). Hans Schlange-Schöningen's younger brother Ernst Schlange (1888–1967) became an officer, worked as a farmer from 1921 and in 1932 sat in the Reichstag for the NSDAP. Hans Schlange-Schöningen's cousin Ernst Schlange (1888–1947) was also an NSDAP politician, he was temporarily Gauleiter and in 1932/1933 a member of the Prussian state parliament.

Hans Schlange-Schöningen married Margarete von Nagy (1890–1975) in 1913. The marriage resulted in three sons and a daughter. The ancient historian Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen (* 1960) is his grandson.

Honors

Publications

  • The day after . Hammerich and Lesser, Hamburg 1946.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Schlange-Schöningen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c files. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
  3. ↑ Frank Eyck's memories of the Kaphanes ( memento of April 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), p. 16
  4. ^ A place of refuge for the persecuted ( memento of April 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) & Günter J. Trittel: Hans Schlange-Schöningen , p. 32.
  5. ^ Helmut Kistler: The Federal Republic of Germany . Bonn 1985
  6. ^ A Pommer on the Thames. In: The Pommersche Zeitung . No. 50/2007, pp. 10-11.
personal data
SURNAME Schlange-Schöningen, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Snake, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (DNVP, CNBL, CDU), MdR, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöningen , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1960
Place of death Bad Godesberg , North Rhine-Westphalia