Herbert Schneider (politician, 1915)

Herbert Schneider (born November 23, 1915 in Strasbourg , Alsace ; † December 12, 1995 in Königswinter ) was a German politician ( DP , CDU since 1967 ).

biography

Schneider was the son of a businessman. After attending elementary schools in Königswinter and St. Blasien , he moved to Berlin in 1918 , where he attended an elementary school and then the Kaiserin-Auguste-Victoria-Gymnasium in Charlottenburg .

soldier

After graduating from high school, he attended the Mürwik Naval School in Flensburg - Mürwik from 1935 and then joined the Air Force Aviation School in Fürth as a flag junior . In 1937 he was a lieutenant in the combat squadron 157 Boelcke (from May 1939: Kampfgeschwader 27 "Boelcke" ), where he was seriously wounded in an aerial combat in 1940 during World War II and lost his left arm. Nevertheless, he continued to take courier and transport flights to Norway and Italy with a Junkers Ju 52 with just one arm during the war . Most recently, from 1944 to the end of the war in 1945, he held the rank of captain in the General Staff of the Air Force High Command . After the war he lived in Bremerhaven in the Leh district of Speckenbüttel.

politics

In 1946 Schneider joined the right-wing conservative German Party (DP) in Bremen . From October 22, 1947 to 1962 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship and chairman of the DP parliamentary group. At the same time he was a city ​​councilor in the Bremerhaven city council . From 1951 to 1953 he was Secretary General of the DP. In 1953 he was elected to the German Bundestag , to which he was a member until 1961. Since 1957 he was also the chairman of the DP parliamentary group and the defense expert of his party.

From 1958 to 1960 Schneider was deputy federal chairman of his party; After Heinrich Hellwege left , to whom he only narrowly defeated 130 to 144 votes at the federal party conference in Heilbronn in May 1960 , he became the last DP chairman before the merger with the GB / BHE .

After the establishment of the All-German Party , Schneider became national chairman with equal rights with Frank Seiboth , but left the party again in 1962. In 1967 he joined the CDU. From 1969 to 1972 Schneider was again a member of the Bundestag .

Profession and other activities

He was represented in various aviation clubs and associations, returnees and in the Kuratorium indivisible Germany . In 1957 he acquired a flying license again at the Bonn / Hangelar airfield and flew with a prosthesis to replace his left arm. From 1962 he was managing director of the Federal Association of the German Aerospace Industry in Bad Godesberg .

Honors

• 1980: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .