Ludwig Schneider (politician, 1898)

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Ludwig Schneider (born September 20, 1898 in Erdhausen , † April 23, 1978 in Lollar ) was a German politician ( FDP , later FVP , DP and CDU ).

Political party

After the Second World War, Schneider, a lawyer by profession and notary from 1945, joined the FDP, which he left on February 23, 1956 with the ministerial wing ("Euler Group") to help found the FVP, with which he joined the DP in 1957 . After the merger of this party with the GB / BHE to form GDP , he, who saw the union as an “unnatural marriage”, joined the CDU on May 3, 1961. He co-founded the local association of the CDU in the municipality of Lollar, located in the district of Giessen , and chaired it until 1972.

MP

Schneider belonged to the German Bundestag from its first election from 1949 to 1957, elected directly in the constituency of Gießen , and again from September 10, 1958, when he replaced August-Martin Euler , until 1961. From 1949 to October 5, 1956, he was chairman of the Bundestag election review committee. From 1953 to 1957 Schneider was Vice President of the Bundestag . From October 8, 1956 to 1957 he was chairman of the budget sub-committee of the Bundestag presidium.

With the establishment of the FVP parliamentary group on March 1, 1956, he was chairman of the parliamentary group until it merged with the DP. From March 14, 1957 until the end of the second legislative period , he was chairman of the DP / FVP parliamentary group together with Ernst-Christoph Brühler .

In 1959 he and Josef Arndgen (CDU), Walther Kühn (FDP) and Carlo Schmid ( SPD ) were one of the initiators of old-age, disability and survivors' benefits for MPs after the accidental death of MP Josef Gockeln , whose surviving dependents became social cases .

From 1952 to 1960 and 1964 to 1968 Schneider was a member of the district council of the Gießen district , after having been a member of the district committee for four years . From 1952 to 1956 he was President of the District Council, the rest of the time as Vice President. From 1964 to 1972 he was a member of the municipal council (later the city council) of Lollar.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 3346, p. 122 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Schneider (Lollar), Ludwig . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Saalfeld to Szyszka] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1117–1118 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 798 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).