Herbert Schediwy

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Herbert Schediwy, 1959

Herbert Schediwy (born August 10, 1915 in Prague / Bohemia , Austria-Hungary , † March 21, 1986 in Rahden / Westphalia ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and a member of the Thuringian state parliament .

Live and act

Herbert Schediwy was born in 1915 as the son of a kuk police director stationed in Prague , attended the five-class elementary school in Lobositz from 1921 to 1926 and the humanistic grammar school in Leitmeritz from 1926 to 1934 . He then studied art history and law at the German Charles University in Prague , where he completed his studies with the third state examination and received his doctorate in law on June 27, 1940 . During his student days he sympathized with the concern of the Sudeten Germans that Czechoslovakia should keep their promise to build their state “like a second Switzerland”, in which all ethnic groups should be granted extensive autonomy.

From 1940 to 1945 he worked - de facto only for a few months - at the Komotau employment office as a consultant, where he was appointed a legal assessor in 1943 . During the Second World War he worked in a news company until 1942 and then took part in the Russian campaign until the end of the war , most recently as an officer , was wounded and after the end of the war, on May 11, 1945, he became a Soviet prisoner of war , from which he Only in 1948 was ill and severely disabled to Frankfurt (Oder) and then released to Thuringia .

During his six-month stay in Mühlhausen as a lecturer at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry , Schediwy joined the CDU on September 1, 1949 . In 1950 he moved to Eisenach , where he was employed as a city councilor. There he became a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation of the GDR (FDGB) and the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) and on May 7, 1950, district chairman of the CDU. On October 15, 1950 he was elected as a member of the Thuringian state parliament.

His political work was determined by massive conflicts with the SED . His bourgeois-democratic convictions and the resistance against the harmonization of the institutions represented a danger from the point of view of the rulers, which led to the indexing of his person. In August 1952 he was informed by the >> Aktion Zentrum << while participating in the Catholic Day in West Berlin . He did not return to Eisenach and escaped arrest by fleeing to Düsseldorf . A fellow campaigner, the then Eisenach district chairman of the LDPD , was unable to escape. She was arrested by the NKVD , sentenced and deported to a Siberian labor camp.

In the Federal Republic of Germany he took on various areas of responsibility as a legal employee in the Sandbostel refugee camp and in the EA Erbslöh Aluminum company in Wuppertal and Harting in Espelkamp .

From his marriage to the teacher Charlotte Erbslöh, born in 1953 in Düsseldorf. Hertel, who had also given up her residence in Eisenach by fleeing and followed him to West Germany with her son, had three children.

Sources and literature

  • Andreas Erbslöh: Dr. Herbert Schediwy, 1915-1986 . In: Wartburgland . Published by the Eisenach home district of the Bundeslandmannschaft Thuringia, issue 17, Bonn 1987 (Eisenach City Archives and House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany, Library for the History of the GDR, Bonn, call number ZK 526)
  • Files and negotiations of the Thuringian Parliament 1946 - 1952 , reprint 1992, ISBN 3-8051-0090-6 .
  • Herbert Gottwald : Der Thüringer Landtag 1946-1952 (writings on the history of parliamentarism in Thuringia) , published by the Thuringian Landtag in conjunction with the Wartburg Verlag, Jena 1994. ISBN 3-8616-0505-8 .
  • Grit Graupner: Parliament, elections and state parliaments . In: Bernhard Post and Volker Wahl (eds.): Thuringia Handbook, Parliament, Government and Administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995 . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna, 1999. ISBN 978-3740009625 , p. 256.
  • Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919-1952: Biographisches Handbuch . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna, 2013. ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Jochen Lengemann: Thuringian state parliaments 1919-1952: Biographisches Handbuch . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna, 2013. ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 , pp. 578f.
  2. ^ Eisenach City Archives, register of persons. Information from January 31, 2019
  3. ↑ Andreas Erbslöh: Dr. Herbert Schediwy, 1915-1986 . In: Wartburgland . Published by the Eisenach home district of the Thuringia federal state team, issue 17, Bonn 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Schediwy, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1986
Place of death Rahden