Johannes Schauff

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Johannes Schauff

Johannes Schauff (born December 19, 1902 in Stommeln near Cologne , today part of Pulheim , † May 19, 1990 in Bad Wiessee ) was a German politician ( center ).

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After graduating from high school in Münstereifel , Schauff studied political science, statistics and history in Berlin and Leipzig . After completing his studies, which he completed with a doctorate to become Dr. jur. finished, he worked as a managing board member for the Society for the Promotion of Inner Colonization in Berlin .

During the Weimar Republic , Schauff was politically active in the Catholic Center Party, for which he was a member of the Reichstag from July 1932 to November 1933 as a member of the Reichstag for constituency 8 ( Liegnitz ) . In 1932 he was the center's youngest member of the Reichstag . After the National Socialists came to power, he lost his professional position in 1933. After losing his seat in the Reichstag, Schauff and his family retired to a farm in Steinfeld in the Eifel . In 1934 he was in contact with the resistance group around Edgar Jung through his friend Edmund Forschbach . For this he maintained, according to Forschbach's memoir, contacts with Adalbert Probst . In the event of a conservative attempt to overthrow National Socialism, the latter was supposed to coordinate the cooperation between the St. Sebastian Rifle Brotherhoods in the Rhineland and the Reichswehr and to eliminate the SA and SS in this area, which the Reichswehr was not allowed to enter.

After Jung's group was broken up, Schauff Forschbach offered shelter in his house in Steinfeld. Later he was connected to the Rhenish resistance group around Walther Hensel and Paul Franken .

At the end of 1933 / beginning of 1934 Schauff traveled to Brazil for the first time in order to find suitable places for a possible settlement of German emigrants. These efforts eventually resulted in the establishment of the Rolândia settlement in Paraná state . Since autumn 1934, Schauff has been organizing so-called compensation deals with an English settlement company from Brazil in order to enable the persecuted to emigrate from Germany. Until 1937 he was occasionally staying illegally in Germany. At the end of 1937, Schauff and his family fled to Rome . In May 1938 the Schauff family emigrated to Brazil and built a farm in Rolândia.

Schauff returned from Brazil in 1947 as a successful entrepreneur. He had apartments in Munich , Bolzano and Rome. From then on he appeared as a mediator in German politics. Schauff also counted among those who inspired German development policy. He was a friend of Federal President Heinrich Lübke and had been to Brazil with his older brother Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke . The former center politician played an important role in preparing the first grand coalition at the German federal level . He also worked persistently and successfully to improve the situation in South Tyrol . Unofficial negotiations during the Second Vatican Council took place in his apartment in Rome. He also campaigned for German-Polish reconciliation by getting in touch with Polish bishops.

Karin and Johannes Schauff were married by Carl Sonnenschein in 1926 .

Honors

Fonts

  • The German Catholics and the Center Party. A political-statistical study of the Reichstag elections since 1871 , Cologne 1928.
  • People and education in Denmark , Düsseldorf 1931. (together with Karin Schauff)
  • The voting behavior of German Catholics in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic. Studies from 1928 , Mainz 1975.

As editor:

  • New right to vote. Contributions to electoral reform , Berlin 1929.
  • 25 years of Rolandia. Studies on the settlement of the north of Paraná. A collection of articles on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Rolandia settlement in the state of North Paraná in Brazil , Berlin / Bonn 1957. (together with Karin Schauff)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans von Herwarth: From Adenauer to Brandt. Memories. Propylaeen, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-549-07403-4 , here p. 315.
  2. ↑ Hans von Herwarth: From Adenauer to Brandt. Memories. Propylaeen, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-549-07403-4 , here p. 315.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Rudolf Morsey, in: Panel discussion "Kärrner und Zuchtmeister. Herbert Wehner's role in party and parliament" at a colloquium of the discussion group history of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn on September 23, 1996
  4. ↑ Hans von Herwarth: From Adenauer to Brandt. Memories. Propylaeen, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-549-07403-4 , here p. 315.
  5. ↑ Hans von Herwarth: From Adenauer to Brandt. Memories. Propylaeen, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-549-07403-4 , here p. 315 f.
personal data
SURNAME Schauff, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Stommeln , Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1990
Place of death Bad Wiessee