Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Schorlemer

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Karl Friedrich von Schorlemer

Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Schorlemer (born March 23, 1886 in Rödelheim , † September 27, 1936 in Wissen ) was a German landowner, lawyer and politician (DNVP).

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Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Schorlemer was born in 1896 as the son of a Catholic landowning family, Rudolf Freiherr von Schorlemer and Maria von Stumpf-Brentano (1853–1932). He attended the Rector's School in Knowledge and high schools in Feldkirch (Stella Matutina) and Bedburg . He then studied law at the Universities of Lausanne , Münster , Bonn , Munich and Göttingen . During his studies, Schorlemer did military service with the Royal Prussian 2nd Westphalian Field Artillery Regiment No. 22 in Münster . In 1913 he became a court trainee in Wiehl .

From 1914 to 1918 Schorlemer took part in the First World War as a member of his old regiment . During the war, Schorlemer was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes, was promoted to lieutenant and from 1917 to 1918 was entrusted with command of the 5th battery of the Münster field artillery regiment.

After the war Schorlemer took over the management of his parents' estate near Volperhausen . In addition, he began to get involved politically. He entered the Founded in 1919, German National People's Party (DNVP) that held office from 1920 to 1927 as an honorary mayor of Morsbach (Oberbergischer Kreis) and was in the Reichstag elections of November 1932 as the candidate of the DNVP for the constituency 20 (Köln-Aachen) to Parliament Weimar Republic elected. In the elections of March 1933, Schorlemer's mandate was confirmed. In the same month he voted together with the other members of the DNVP parliamentary group for the Enabling Act , which gave the Hitler government the power to pass laws in future independently of the Reichstag (amalgamation of the executive and legislative branches). After the DNVP was dissolved in the summer of 1933, Schorlemer ran for the NSDAP in the Reichstag elections on November 12, 1933 and was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag until his death in 1936 as a "guest" of the NSDAP faction.

In addition, Schorlemer was alderman since 1930. He was also director of the Waldbröl local department.

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