Heinrich Schneider (politician, 1907)

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Heinrich Schneider (1955)

Heinrich Schneider (born February 22, 1907 in Saarbrücken , † January 12, 1974 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician in the Saarland (NSDAP, FDP, DPS).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1926, Schneider studied law in Heidelberg , Berlin , Munich and Marburg and completed his training in 1930 with a doctorate . After returning to Saarbrücken in August 1931, he settled there as a lawyer and worked for the Nazi weekly newspaper Saardeutsche Voice . He acted as the "Gau spokesman" for the NSDAP and was the editor of the Saar German Volksstimme . In June 1933, Schneider succeeded Hans Globke as head of the Saar department in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . After the disempowerment of the Saarland NSDAP under Alois Spaniol in 1934 by the unofficial Gauleiter Josef Bürckel , Schneider was expelled from the NSDAP by a party court on October 21, 1937 for "persistent party-damaging behavior". However, this guilty verdict was not accepted by the Reich leadership. After the outbreak of war, Schneider worked in a law firm in Mannheim . In 1941 he finally became a laborer in the Foreign Office . After returning to Saarbrücken, Schneider initially worked in his father's carpentry workshop. After denazification as a follower , he reopened a law firm .

politics

After a visit by Gregor Strasser , Schneider joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party in October 1930 , and was accepted into the party on February 1, 1931 ( membership number 419,405). 1933 Schneider Saar officer in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and head of the Saarland Department of the Nazi Party. The party department was dissolved in February 1934 at the instigation of the Gauleiter of the Palatinate and Josef Bürckel , who had been appointed Saarkommissar by Hitler ; Schneider left the Ministry a few months later. In 1937, due to his labor court defense by Social Democrats and opponents of the annexation of the Saar area to the German Reich, a party expulsion procedure was initiated against Schneider for “behavior that was harmful to the party”. However, Schneider defended himself successfully enough at the level of the district court and in the court of honor proceedings that the proceedings against him were adjourned indefinitely. Schneider paid his party membership fees until the end of the war.

Schneider joined the Free Democratic Party / Democratic Party Saar (Democratic Party Saar) in 1950 . At the direction-changing 3rd party congress on September 2, 1950, he was elected to the board for the first time. In the DPS ban proceedings, Schneider was the legal representative of his party. In 1953, he should be on the national list Rhineland-Palatinate the FDP candidate, but refrained because it because of the " Lex Conrad had run" the risk of his Saarland citizenship to lose. After the re-establishment of the Saar Democratic Party, he became its first chairman. By joining the DPS to the FDP, he also became a member of the Liberals on August 11, 1957 and was a member of the FDP federal executive from 1958 to 1962 . In 1960 Schneider became deputy federal chairman of the FDP, which he left in 1969 in protest against the social-liberal coalition .

Schneider was a member of the state parliament in Saarland from 1955 to 1965 . From January 2 to December 31, 1956 he was President of the State Parliament . The Saarland Landtag sent him to the German Bundestag on January 4, 1957 , to which he was a member until 1965. From June 4, 1957 to February 26, 1959, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Saarland and Minister of Economics, Transport, Food and Agriculture.

Fonts

  • The miracle on the Saar. A success of political community. Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-512-00350-8 .
  • Our Saar . Edited by Heinrich Schneider, Edwin Runge Verlag, Berlin-Tempelhof 1934.

Posthumous trouble

The publications of the historian Erich Später about Heinrich Schneider, to whom he as a “propagandist” and high “functionary of the NSDAP” assigned responsibility for the “organized disenfranchisement, plundering and expulsion of Saarland's Jewish faith” from January 1935 on, Schneider's son, the Saarbrücken lawyer Heinz R. Schneider, on November 24, 2005 prompted a “declaration of cease and desist with penalties”. The defendant later refused to retract his statement with the words: "This story has been hushed up in Saarland for far too long."

Heinrich Schneider was positive about his Nazi past even after 1945 and, for example, in an article advocated equating the referendums of 1955 and 1935 in the Saar when it came to annexation to Germany. In it he celebrated the protagonists of the German Front of 1935. For him they were the same as those of 1955. “Their loyalty remained unchangeable,” he wrote.

literature

  • Rainer Möhler: Lawyer Dr. Heinrich Schneider: Drummer or Follower? In: Peter Wettmann-Jungblut, Saarländischer AnwaltVerein (Ed.): Lawyers on the Saar 1800–1960. History of a civil profession. Blieskastel, Gollenstein 2004, ISBN 3-935731-19-1 , pp. 301-324.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Paul : The NSDAP of the Saar area 1920-1935 . Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag (SDV), Saarbrücken 1987, ISBN 3-925036-11-3 , p. 188 .
  2. ^ Gerhard Paul: The NSDAP of the Saar area 1920-1935 . S. 189 .
  3. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch: List 1: Alphabetical list of members of the Saarland state parliament with proven NSDAP membership. (PDF; 2.15 MB) In: Brown traces in the Saar state parliament. The Nazi past of representatives from Saarland. The left. Parliamentary group in the Saarland State Parliament, Saarbrücken 2013, p. 19 , accessed on January 25, 2016 .
  4. ^ Rainer Möhler: Attorney Dr. Heinrich Schneider: Drummer or Follower? Pp. 305-307.
  5. ^ Rainer Möhler: Attorney Dr. Heinrich Schneider: Drummer or Follower? Pp. 308-312.
  6. ↑ Erich later: The word of the Führer is our order. Heinrich Schneider a German patriot . In: Saarbrücker Hefte . No. 89 (spring 2003), p. 95-103 ( boell-saar.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).
  7. ↑ Erich later: The Saar is German! 50 years of the Saar referendum . In: green: concrete . No. 2 , 2005, p. 18–19 ( Internet Archive [PDF; 733 kB ]).
  8. ↑ Klaus-Peter Klingelschmitt: Saar-FDP celebrates its Nazi grandpa, on the weekend of November 26, 2005, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP, FDP / DPS), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1974
Place of death Stuttgart