Joseph Schmitt (lawyer)

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Joseph Bonifatius Pius Schmitt (born July 16, 1908 in Fulda ; † November 28, 1998 there ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Joseph Schmitt, the oldest of five children of a wine wholesaler in Fulda, studied law and economics after graduating from high school in 1926. Schmitt was committed to the Windthorstbund , the youth organization of the Catholic Center Party, and had been one of the leading members in Fulda since 1926. Therefore, after 1933 he was under observation by the National Socialists. He was initially a judge at the Kassel Regional Court , but was transferred to Stettin on the initiative of Roland Freisler and was banned from going home for three years. He was a soldier in World War II and returned home disabled by the war.

After the end of the Second World War, he founded the Albertus Magnus Association in Fulda in 1946 , one of several independent associations in the German Albertus Magnus Association (DAMV) to support academic Catholic youth. He also founded the Rabanus community for adult education in Fulda in 1946 , from which the Catholic Academy Rabanus Maurus of the dioceses of Limburg, Mainz and Fulda emerged in 1957 . He was also committed to parental participation in schools and in 1949, as chairman of the state school parents' council in Hesse, was the initiator of the legal anchoring of parental participation.

Schmitt was admitted to the bar in 1947, followed by admission as a notary in 1958.

In 1947 Joseph Schmitt founded Siedlungswerk Fulda eG , a non-profit cooperative housing and settlement company that built more than three thousand apartments in Fulda in the post-war period. He was its chairman from 1947 to 1982.

Shortly after the establishment of the International Building Order (IBO) by Werenfried van Straaten OPraem, Schmitt became involved in the Building Order from 1954. From 1962 to 1980 he was chairman and deputy of the board of directors of the International Building Order based in Leuven, Belgium .

A candidacy for the successor to the Mayor of Fulda Cuno Raabe in 1956 failed; he had to cede the candidacy to Alfred Dregger . He had been a member of the CDU since 1953 and was ranked 27th out of 51 on the Hessian CDU .

As chairman of the local committee, Schmitt was largely responsible for planning the 76th German Catholic Convention in 1954 in Fulda.

In 1953 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in Cologne Cathedral on December 8, 1953 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He was the first chief commander of the new Rabanus-Maurus commander in Fulda.

In 1961 Schmitt became a partner in the Parzeller printing and publishing house and was chairman of the shareholders' committee for over thirty years.

He was a member of the Catholic student associations K.St.V. Südmark Munich and K.St.V. Semnonia Berlin in KV .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "The Fulda region in the period from 1919–1945" ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 24, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gemeinden.net
  2. ↑ Joachim Haas: "Away from the" big "story: Opposition and resistance to National Socialism in the Fulda area: Attempt to secure evidence", Jugend und Politik Verlag 1989
  3. ↑ a b c d "Joseph Schmitt was born 100 years ago" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 24, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bauorden.de
  4. ↑ Deutscher Albertus-Magnus-Verein (DAMV) ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 24, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.damv.org
  5. ^ "Joseph Schmitt (1908-1998): A life in the service of others" , website Joseph Schmitt Prize, accessed on August 7, 2018
  6. ↑ "About our history"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Siedlungswerk Fulda, accessed on August 24, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.siedlungswerk-fulda.de  
  7. ↑ Michael Schwab: "Alfred Dregger for Fulda and Germany", Imhof 2008
  8. ↑ “You are to be a witness to me. Report on the Negotiations ”, 1954
personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitt, Joseph Bonifatius Pius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1998
Place of death Fulda