Josef Schneeberger

Josef Schneeberger (born February 16, 1909 in Nuremberg ; † August 1, 1982 in Münster ) was the district president in Münster from 1959 to 1973 .

Life

He attended secondary school in Nuremberg and studied law in Würzburg from 1927 to 1931 , where he was a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Gothia-Würzburg was part of the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV). In 1930 he was awarded the honorary ribbon of the Franco-Raetia Würzburg Catholic student association . In November 1931, Schneeberger passed the first state examination and in 1935 the great state examination . Both exams with distinction, the "Great State Examination" with the best grade "commendable" awarded in Bavaria at the time.

From 1935 to 1939 Josef Schneeberger worked in the Bavarian judicial service, among other things as a court assessor at the district court in Günzburg and later as a district judge at the Nuremberg-Fürth public prosecutor's office and at the district court in Nuremberg. In 1944 he received his doctorate in Frankfurt am Main.

At the beginning of the war he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a first lieutenant in the reserve and at the end of the war came as an adjutant of an anti-aircraft regiment in Frankfurt am Main in American captivity, from which he was released to Speyer in May 1946.

On May 15, 1946, he entered the service of the Speyer diocese as a legal advisor, and on October 15, 1947, he received the rank of Episcopal Legal Counsel. He remained in the service of the Diocese of Speyer until 1953. In February 1953 he was appointed Ministerialrat and head of the legal department in the Ministry of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate.

In May 1958 he moved to the Federal Ministry of the Interior and became head of the "Public Security" department. It was here that he was appointed Ministerial Conductor in October 1959.

On May 15, 1959, he was introduced to his new office as District President in Münster by the North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Dufhues . During his tenure in 1969, the opening of the “ Hansalinie ” motorway , the first expansion of the Dortmund-Ems Canal , the creation of the Hohe Mark Nature Park in 1964 and the move into the new administration building in 1971 fell.

Josef Schneeberger was involved in the CV from 1951 to 1957 as chairman of the old gentlemen's association (AHB) and in several other functions up to his death. From 1962 to 1964 he was President of the German Catholic Academic Association . In 1956 he was president of the 77th Catholic Church Congress in Cologne. After the end of his office as district president, he was president of the Volksbund Deutscher Kriegsgräberfürsorge from 1977 to 1982 , for which he made first contacts with the Russian Red Cross .

Honors

• 1972: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

swell

• Bernd Haunfelder : The Münster government presidents of the 20th century . District government Münster, Münster 2006, pp. 62–67
• Federal Archives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reception date was April 30, 1928. Cf. Baumann, Richard: Gothia sei's Panier. 100 years of KDStV Gothia zu Würzburg in CV 1895-1995. Wuerzburg 1995.
2. ↑ 100 years of the Catholic German Student Union Franco-Raetia Würzburg, commemorative publication for the 100th foundation festival of the KDSt.V. Franco-Raetia zu Würzburg in the CV, Würzburg 2005.
3. ↑ Schneeberger's beer name (known in the whole CV) was "Schnebs". The second and third verses of the song "Alles Schweige, everyone neige" (CV songbook) come from his pen.

predecessor	Office	successor
Bernhard Reismann	District President of the Münster administrative district in Westphalia 1959 - 1973	Egbert Möcklinghoff