Peter Schönlein

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Peter Schönlein in June 2009
Bronze plate on the lying grave
Grave in the Rochusfriedhof

Peter Wilhelm Schönlein (born March 16, 1939 in Nuremberg ; † November 30, 2016 there ) was a German local politician of the SPD and Lord Mayor of Nuremberg from 1987 to 1996.

Life

Schönlein attended the New High School in Nuremberg . After graduating from high school, he studied Latin, Greek and history at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen , as well as French at the Sorbonne . In 1966 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a grammar school teacher at the Melanchthon grammar school in Nuremberg , then at the new grammar school in Nuremberg. He had been married to Claudia Zeck since 1970 and had two children.

In 1972 first elected to the Nuremberg city council, in 1978 Schönlein became chairman of the SPD city council faction. He ran for the office of Lord Mayor of Nuremberg in the fall of 1987 and won against the CSU politician Günther Beckstein . In 1990 he was re-elected. Previously, he had voluntarily shortened his term of office in order to be able to combine the mayor and local elections. The most important changes in the course of his tenure include the expansion of the U-Bahn and S-Bahn , the reorganization of the city's museums , the expansion of the Franken Stadium and the introduction of the International Nuremberg Human Rights Prize , of which he was a jury until 1996. He set special accents in the city partnerships with Krakow and Prague . The culture mile, modeled on Frankfurt am Main ( Museumsufer ) and Stuttgart , goes back to his initiative . It was also discussed in the election campaign for the mayor's office in March 1996, which he lost - a surprise in the traditionally more SPD-related city - to the CSU applicant Ludwig Scholz . He then returned to the teaching profession, was promoted to senior director of studies and was director of the Dürer grammar school in Nuremberg from 1996 to 2002 .

Peter Schönlein was one of the prominent Nuremberg residents who launched the “No sloppy language. No to Denglisch "supported the Senior Citizens' Initiative Nuremberg (SIN), which together with the German Language Association also initiated the" Franconian Language Alliance ".

Schönlein was involved in the peace movement for a long time , which was also evident in the orientation of the “Office for International Relations” during his term of office. He appeared as a speaker at the Nuremberg Easter March . In June 2014, in an open letter, he criticized the call for more military operations that Federal President Joachim Gauck had made.

Schönlein was chairman of the German Olympic Society Middle Franconia and from 2006 to 2012 the church council of St. Sebald in Nuremberg. He was also a member of the Erlangen fraternity of the Bubenreuther .

He died on November 30, 2016 at the age of 77.

Awards

Fonts

  • Moral consciousness as a motive for action in Roman historians. Inaugural dissertation. University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Phil. Faculty, Diss. April 4, 1966, Erlangen-Nuremberg 1966.
  • How the Bavarians plundered. What Nuremberg lost to Munich. In: Merian Nürnberg. Hoffmann & Campe, volume 6, Hamburg 1981.
  • Peter Schönlein, Jörg Wollenberg , Jerzy W. Wyrozumski: Menetekel. The face of the second world war. Nuremberg conversation on the 50th anniversary of the unleashing of the Second World War ... Ed .: Education Center of the City of Nuremberg. Contributions by Andrzej Ajnenkiel… - Nuremberg: Bildungszentrum, 1992, 389 p., ISBN 83-233-0459-9 (Nuremberg contributions to adult education; Volume 1).
  • The Nuremberg-Gera city partnership: How the SED and Stasi wanted to keep everything under control. Lecture on the exhibition “An Open Secret. Post and telephone control in the GDR ”in the Museum for Communication in Nuremberg on Monday, October 25, 2004 (digitized version).

literature

  • Speeches and addresses for the inauguration of Mayor Dr. Peter Schönlein. Nuremberg 1987.
  • Norbert Neudecker: The city between utopia and reality. Interview with the Lord Mayor Dr. Peter Schönlein. In: City of Nuremberg (ed.): Nuremberg today. Magazine for citizens and friends of the city. Issue 44, July 1988. Sebald, Nuremberg 1988.
  • Peter Schönlein, German educator and local politician; SPD; Dr. phil. In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/1996 of October 14, 1996.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Moral Consciousness as a Motive for Action in Roman Historians .
  2. ↑ No language sloppiness. No to Denglish. In: six + sixty, magazine for self-confident older people. 2003, archived from the original on December 10, 2003 ; accessed on December 2, 2016 .
  3. ^ No to Denglisch: An action by the Nuremberg Seniors' Initiative (SIN). Language Alliance Franconia, archived from the original on February 24, 2008 ; accessed on December 2, 2016 .
  4. ^ Former Mayor Schönlein criticizes Joachim Gauck . nordbayern.de , June 19, 2014, accessed on December 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ Hartmut Voigt: Nuremberg mourns: former Mayor Peter Schönlein died . nordbayern.de , December 1, 2016, accessed on December 2, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Schönlein, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönlein, Peter Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and local politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2016
Place of death Nuremberg