Hubert Schulze Pellengahr

Bernhard Hubert Arthur Robert Schulze Pellengahr Freiherr von Freusberg-Steinhorst (born August 15, 1899 in Ascheberg ; † June 23, 1985 there ) was a German politician ( center , later CDU ).

Life

Schulze Pellengahr was the eldest son of the economist and center politician Heinrich Franz Julius Schulze Pellengahr (he was raised to the hereditary baron status by the Prussian King Wilhelm II in appreciation of his services towards the end of the monarchy and has since been called “Schulze Pellengahr Freiherr von Freusberg- Steinhorst ”) and his wife Anna Schulze Brexel, who comes from Wadersloh , was born at Haus Steinhorst near Ascheberg (Westphalia). His grandfather was the Prussian state parliament member and central politician Caspar Hubert Gustav Schulze Pellengahr . He grew up on his parents' farm with three brothers and three sisters.

After attending the elementary and rectorate school in Ascheberg, he switched to the Episcopal Gymnasium Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck near Goch on the Lower Rhine, which he left in June 1917 with the secondary school leaving certificate. Immediately afterwards he was drafted into the Reichswehr and assigned to the Western Front. After his discharge from military service, he studied agriculture and economics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , which was followed by practical agricultural training on the Velen Provincial Estate.

On June 20, 1928, he married Hedwig Schulze Höping, who came from Greven . From this connection two sons and a daughter were born. After the death of his father, he and his wife took over their parents' farm, Haus Steinhorst in Ascheberg, which he managed as a farmer.

At the beginning of the Second World War , his wife was drafted into the Wehrmacht and through the intercession of his cousin, Lieutenant General Richard Pellengahr , he was released in 1940, so that he could devote himself to running his farm again.

He died on his farm in Ascheberg and was buried in the family crypt there.

Political activity

Before 1933 he belonged to the Center Party, but withdrew completely from politics when the National Socialists came to power. Immediately after the end of the war, in 1945, he was appointed to the first local council in his home town of Ascheberg by the British military government . There, as in the Lüdinghausen district, he was one of the founders of the CDU. From 1946 to 1969 he was a member of the district council of Lüdinghausen for six electoral terms, initially as CDU parliamentary group chairman and deputy district administrator, from December 1, 1958 as district administrator of the Lüdinghausen district. From 1949 to 1961 he was a member of the German Bundestag, where he represented the constituency of Lüdinghausen - Coesfeld as a directly elected member . In addition to his political offices and functions, he was involved in ecclesiastical and professional associations and associations.

honors and awards

• 1917: Iron Cross 2nd class,
• 1969: Large Federal Cross of Merit

literature

• Christian Schulze Pellengahr : When we are called, we are there - biographical notes about MP Hubert Schulze Pellengahr from Ascheberg. In: History sheets of the Coesfeld district. Vol. 24 (1999), Coesfeld 1999, pp. 85-100.
• Joseph Freusberg: From the history of the former prince-bishop's Schultenhof Steinhorst near Ascheberg. In: History sheets of the Coesfeld district. 30th year (2005), Coesfeld 2005, pp. 60-63.
• District Assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): District administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1945–1991. Düsseldorf 1992, p. 517.