Klaus-Peter Schulz

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German local history researcher and museum director, see Klaus-Peter Schulz (local history researcher) .

Klaus-Peter Schulz (born April 2, 1915 in Berlin ; † November 15, 2000 there ) was a German politician ( SPD / CDU ). He was first a member of the state parliaments of Baden-Württemberg and Berlin for the SPD until he moved into the German Bundestag in 1965. After differences with the SPD, he left the SPD in 1971 and joined the CDU, to whose parliamentary group he belonged until he left the Bundestag in 1976.

Life

Schulz was the son of Heinrich Schulz (1872–1932), a member of the Reichstag . His father was also State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of the Interior from 1919 to 1927, in 1919 he was Vice-President of the German Constituent Assembly and was a member of the Reichstag from 1912 to 1930.

Klaus-Peter Schulz attended the Grunewald Gymnasium from 1925 to 1930 and then the French Gymnasium in Berlin until 1933 . After graduating from high school, he learned the profession of editor . From 1935 to 1939 Schulz worked as a department head at the Kreuzzeitung . At the same time he studied medicine from 1936 at the universities in Berlin and Greifswald . In 1944 he passed the exam and a year later he received his doctorate . From 1937 to 1945 he was a member of the Wehrmacht as a reserve physician , although he was not involved in warlike events.

From 1946 he worked again for various newspapers and radio stations. He was an editor at the Tagesspiegel in Berlin and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Der Sozialdemokrat . He also edited the weekly Debate from 1948 to 1949 . He continued to work for the radio until the 1960s, from 1960 to 1963 he was Berlin correspondent for Südwestfunk and from 1962 to 1966 head of the Berlin office of Deutsche Welle . He published a Willy Brandt biography in 1961 under the pseudonym Jan Peter Berkrandt , other texts under Ludwig Loy and Georges Zurga .

In 1978 Schulz was sentenced to ten months in prison without parole for child abuse. He did not show what damage he had done with his punishment ritual.

politics

Schulz had already joined the SPD in 1931, of which he was a member until it was banned by the National Socialists in 1933. After the end of the Second World War , he rejoined the SPD in 1945. In 1950 he became a member of the European Union . From 1952 to 1956 he was a member of the first state parliament of Baden-Württemberg and from February 1963 to September 1965 of the Berlin House of Representatives . He was then a representative of Berlin in the German Bundestag , to which he belonged for three terms from 1965 to 1976. During this time he was also a member of the Presidium of the European Union in 1970. Schulz had been non-attached since October 14, 1971 , after he had resigned from the SPD parliamentary group due to differences with the party leadership. Having already problems with the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt had been made known, he finally resigned from the SPD, after the party's initiative to direct election of German deputies in the European Parliament blocked. He then met with Rainer Barzel , then chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, and joined them on October 19, 1971. In the fifth electoral term, Schulz was a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee from January 1967 to October 1968, of which he was a full member until the end of the electoral term. In the sixth and seventh electoral terms he was again a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. From 1973 to 1977 Schulz was also a member of the European Parliament (MEP).

Publications

• The island of freedom . Offenbach am Main, 1948.
• Concern for the German left . Cologne / Berlin, 1954.
• Luther and Marx in the field of tension of our time . Stuttgart / Cologne, 1956.
• Opposition as political fate . Cologne, 1958.
• Kurt Tucholsky . Hamburg, 1959.
• Willy Brandt. The fate of a German politician . 1961
• Berlin between freedom and dictatorship . Berlin, 1962.
• Proletarians - class fighters - citizens. 100 years of the German labor movement . Munich, 1963.
• The start of the Cold War. The SPD's struggle for freedom in Berlin 1945-46 . Berlin, 1965.
• The Reichstag yesterday - tomorrow . Berlin, 1969.
• I am warning . Stuttgart, 1972.
• The honorable blackmailers . Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna, 1976.
• Berlin and the Berliners . Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna, 1977.
• Love is the meaning . Berlin, 1980.
• A perfect character assassination. Factual report about the elimination of an inconvenient . Berlin, 1984.
• Adenauer's opponent. Encounters with Kurt Schumacher and social democrats from the very beginning . Freiburg im Breisgau, 1989.
• Authentic traces. Encounters with people from contemporary history . Boppard on the Rhine, 1993.

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. 247 (331 pages).
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 795-796.
• Ditmar Staffelt : The Reconstruction of Berlin Social Democracy 1945/46 and the Unity Question - a contribution to the post-war history of the lower and middle organizational structures of the SPD , Verlag Peter Lang 1986, ISBN 978-3-8204-9176-0 , p. 433.

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus-Peter Schulz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ursula Heukenkamp: Untererm Notdach: Post-War Literature in Berlin 1945-1949. Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1996. p. 555.
2. ↑ Biblical measure . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1978 ( online ).
3. ↑ Later or so . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1971, p. 31 ( online ).