Joseph Schneider (lawyer)
Joseph Schneider (born October 26, 1900 in Diedenhofen , Lorraine , † June 7, 1986 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and the first president of the Federal Social Court .
Schneider studied law in Bonn and became an active member of the Catholic student association K.St.V. Arminia in KV . From 1931 he was a consultant in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior , in 1935/36 he was a department head in the government of the Rhine Province in Aachen . He then worked in the Reich Insurance Office until 1939 and until 1942 as a consultant for all aspects of social security at the Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia . In 1942 he was appointed head of the social insurance section in the Ministry of Economy and Labor in Prague . In this position he worked until the end of National Socialism . It was here that Schneider also met Franz Nüsslein , whose position in the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany was expressly supported by Schneider.
In 1947, Schneider became senior director of the Olpe district , and in 1950 head of the department for general administration and legal affairs in the newly formed Federal Ministry of Labor .
In 1954 he was finally appointed the first President of the Federal Social Court, which he chaired until 1968.
Honors
- Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (1969)
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen
- Golden plaque of honor of the Association of War Disabled, War Survivors and Social Pensioners in Germany
literature
- Richard Lossen: Joseph Schneider (1900-1985) , in: Michael F. Feldkamp (Ed.): Arminia 1863–1988. Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the Arminia Catholic Student Association . Bonn 1988, pp. 209-214.
- Karl-Heinz Nickel, Harald Schmidt, Florian Tennstedt , Heide Wunder : short biographies , in: Kassel as the city of lawyers and the courts in their thousand-year history. Edited by Georg Wannagat . Cologne u. a .: Heymann, 1990. pp. 505f.
- Michael F. Feldkamp : Franz Roman Nüßlein (1909-2003) and the so-called "obituary affair" of the Foreign Office in 2005, in: 1863-2013. Festschrift for the 150th foundation festival of the Catholic student association Arminia , Bonn 2013, pp. 74–101. ISBN 978-3-00-041979-9 .
Web links
- Joseph Schneider's curriculum vitae on the website of the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Reich Ministry of Labor 1933–1945
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, President of the Federal Social Court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Diedenhofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1986 |
| Place of death | Bonn |