Karl Theodor Schmitz
Karl Theodor Schmitz (born February 17, 1905 in Minsk , Russian Empire , † September 15, 1969 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( CDU ).
Schmitz was the son of Reich Germans in Minsk and was interned in Russia during the First World War . In 1918 he moved to the German Reich and initially trained as a commercial artist . He then attended a Seventh-day Adventist high school in Mettmann in the Rhineland . From 1926 to 1929 Schmitz studied at Union College in Lincoln (Nebraska) , USA . After his return to Germany, he taught the Seventh-day Adventists until 1937.
After the Second World War Schmitz became a teacher for Russian at the Askanische Oberschule in Berlin-Tempelhof . He joined the CDU and worked in the district offices of Tempelhof and Steglitz . He was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1950 , but left again in March 1951. From 1955 to 1959 Schmitz was district mayor of Berlin-Tempelhof.
Honor
In November 1979 the "Karl-Theodor-Schmitz-Brücke" was opened in Berlin-Marienfelde in his honor.
literature
- Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 239-240 (331 pages).
Emil Groß (1921–1925) | Reinhard Bruns-Wüstefeld (1925–1937) | Carl Pollesch (1937–1945) | Willy Kramm (1945) | Jens Nydahl (1945–1947) | Otto Burgemeister (1947–1951) | Hermann Fischer (1951–1953) | Alfred Homeyer (1953–1955) | Karl Theodor Schmitz (1955–1959) | Kurt Mürre (1959–1965) | Bernhard Hoffmann (1965–1975) | Siegmund Jaroch (1975–1991) | Wolfgang Krueger (1991–1997) | Dieter Hapel (1998-2000)
Since January 1, 2001, the Tempelhof district has been part of the new Tempelhof-Schöneberg district .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitz, Karl Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minsk , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th September 1969 |
| Place of death | Berlin |