Hans Schmidt-Oxbüll

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Hans Schmidt-Oxbüll (born April 1, 1899 in Oxbüll near Norburg , Alsen ; † October 2, 1978 ibid) was a Danish-German farmer and chairman of the Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger , the umbrella organization of the German minority in Denmark .

Life and work

Hans Schmidt-Oxbüll was drafted into the military after attending school and took part in the First World War as a soldier with the Infantry Regiment “von Manstein” (Schleswigsches) No. 84 from 1917-18 . He was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Somme in France and lived to see the end of the war in a recovery company at Gottorf Castle . At the beginning of the 1920s he attended the agricultural schools in Hildesheim and Oldenburg (Oldenburg) and then took over his parents' farm in Oxbüll in 1927, initially on lease, in 1936 he became the owner of the farm, which had been in the family's possession since 1655.

Hans Schmidt-Oxbüll belonged to the group that met after 1920 for the youth conferences under the direction of Pastor Johannes Schmidt-Wodder in the old adult education center in Tingleff . He became head of the Norderharder Jugendbund, was chairman of the traditional association Harmonie in Norburg and the local electoral association. As one of the representatives of the youth associations, he was a member of the board of the general associations of the German ethnic group.

In May 1945 he was imprisoned for belonging to the minority volunteer corps, sentenced according to the laws with retroactive effect and interned in the Faarhus camp. After returning from there, he was elected to the main board of the Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger, the umbrella organization of the German minority in Denmark . From 1951 to 1960 he was the main chairman of this organization.

On the occasion of the 1953 election, which was linked to a constitutional reform, he stood as an independent candidate and won a seat in the Folketing with 9,721 votes . He then re-registered the Schleswig party as a party group in parliament and remained a member of the Folketing until 1964 and thus the only representative of the German minority in the Danish parliament. In the 1964 election he decided not to run again due to internal disputes in the minority. The independent mandate was lost in this election due to a lack of votes.

In 1954 Schmidt-Oxbüll was one of the founders of the Federal Union of European Ethnic Groups (FUEN) and was president of this organization from 1959 to 1963.

Hans Schmidt-Oxbüll advocated reconciliation between the Danish and German parts of the population in North Schleswig and worked intensively for the implementation of the declaration of loyalty contained in the founding declaration of the Federation of German North Schleswig-Holstein and the resulting development.

literature

  • Ernst Siegfried Hansen : Thistles on the way . Deutscher Heimat-Verlag, Bielefeld-Bethel 1957.
  • Harboe Kardel : Five decades of my life . In: Writings of the local history study group for North Schleswig . Issue 22. Aabenraa 1970.
  • Peter Jessen Sönnichsen: Mirror of the Years . "The German People's Calendar North Schleswig" - A cultural history of the German ethnic group in Denmark. Aabenraa 1993, ISBN 87-90072-00-6 .

swell

  • Nekrolog in Deutscher Volkskalender für Nordschleswig, 1992

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