Otto Schaedler
Otto Schaedler (born June 9, 1898 in Balzers , † December 25, 1965 in Vaduz ) was a member of the Liechtenstein state parliament and a doctor. He was one of the founders of the Liechtenstein Homeland Service (LHD for short) and after the merger of the LHD with the Christian Social People's Party (VP for short) on January 5, 1936 to form the Fatherland Union (VU for short) its party president.
Life
Otto Schaedler was one of 15 children of the married couple Emilian Adolf Schaedler and Emerita Schaedler née Gstöhl. The family had a farm. He attended school in Balzers and from 1910 to 1917 the grammar school in Maria-Hilf in Schwyz , Switzerland . From 1918 to 1923 he studied medicine in Innsbruck . He then opened his own practice in Eschen , which he moved to Vaduz in 1930. On May 27, 1926 he married Maria Rheinberger (* February 10, 1899, † July 21, 1993). The couple had a daughter.
On September 30, 1933 , 15 men met in his apartment in the evening and founded the Liechtenstein Homeland Service. The men elected Eugen Schafhauser as President and Otto Schaedler as Vice-President. They also decided to publish a newspaper with the same name. They appointed Carl von Vogelsang as secretary of the new newspaper . After Eugen Schafhauser had withdrawn as president after a short time, Otto Schaedler took over the office of president. After the LHD merged with the VP to form the Vaterländische Union, Otto Schaedler became its president and remained so until his death in December 1965.
From 1936 to 1945 and from 1962 to 1965 Otto Schaedler was a member of the state parliament for VU. Several times he was Vice-President of the State Parliament. He was also a member of the Liechtenstein State Court. He was a member of the Medical Commission and President of the Liechtenstein Medical Association. In addition, he continued to run his practice in Vaduz.
In his thirties, Otto Schaedler was an avowed supporter of National Socialism and an ardent anti-Semite . He maintained close contacts with National Socialist circles in Germany and Austria. He built up the LHD Sturmtrupp, an SA- like party militia. Together with the Liechtenstein head of government Josef Hoop, he visited Adolf Hitler in March 1939 in the new Reich Chancellery in Berlin . The Volksdeutsche movement in Liechtenstein, VDBL, founded in 1938 after the annexation of Austria, tried to win him over as its leader. But Otto Schaedler refused the offer and distanced himself from the VDBL, which demanded a connection from Liechtenstein to the Greater German Reich.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaedler, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Liechtenstein member of the state parliament and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Balzers |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1965 |
| Place of death | Vaduz |