Paul Friedrich Scheffler

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Paul Friedrich Scheffler (born April 23, 1895 in Wismar , † September 29, 1985 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and LDPD politician.

Life

Paul-Friedrich Scheffler attended the community school, the grammar school there and studied law at the universities of Jena and Rostock. After the first legal examination he received his doctorate in 1926 at the University of Rostock Dr. jur. After completing his second exam, Scheffler initially worked for a bank before settling in Rostock as a lawyer and notary in 1931. Politically, he was close to the German Democratic Party (DDP).

In November 1945 he founded the LDPD in Rostock and was its chairman until November 1946. From July 1946 he also led the Rostock district association. In the municipal and state elections in 1946 , Scheffler received a mandate for the city council and the state parliament . The LDPD parliamentary group finally elected Scheffler as parliamentary group chairman in November 1946, and from July 1946 to December 1948 he was a member of the LDPD central board in Berlin. In the state parliament, Scheffler advocated a development based on the rule of law in the Soviet occupation zone and thus drew the displeasure of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). On behalf of the LDPD parliamentary group, for example, in 1947 he applied for the state constitution to ban class baiting in addition to racial baiting. Scheffler also opposed the arbitrary expropriation of all cinema owners in the country and was arrested in November 1947 without lifting parliamentary immunity. LDPD MP Friedrich Stratmann took over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group . In July 1948 he was released from prison and acquitted. In November 1948, after fleeing to the West, his mandate in the state parliament was revoked.

In the Berlin election in 1950 , Scheffler was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives. He was also elected to parliament in the following election in 1954 , but resigned in February 1955 because the district assembly in the Tempelhof district had elected him to the district councilor for finances. At the end of the legislative period in 1959, he left office.

Scheffler resigned from the FDP in 1959.

literature

  • Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945–1949 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 1015.
  • 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. 230 (331 pages).
  • Klaus Schwabe: State election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Booklet accompanying an exhibition in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament from August 28 to October 20, 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Damian van Melis: Denazification in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Rule and administration 1945 - 1948 , Oldenbourg 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56390-0 , p. 231
personal data
SURNAME Scheffler, Paul Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (LDPD, FDP), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1985
Place of death Berlin