Philipp Schmitt (politician)

Philipp Schmitt (born January 28, 1910 in Lichtenfels ; † May 30, 1994 in Bamberg ) was a German politician (initially BVP , later CSU ).

Schmitt initially worked as a businessman and in the Catholic youth movement. He later became a journalist and was editor of the Bamberger Volksblatt from 1930 to 1938 . During the Second World War he was active in France and in the Africa Corps . Five and a half years he was in Egypt , South Africa , Canada and Scotland in captivity . After his dismissal he returned to the Bamberger Volksblatt, where he was most recently deputy editor-in-chief until the newspaper was taken over by Fränkischer Tag in 1970 .

After the war, Schmitt was active in a variety of functions at the CSU, after having been a member of the BVP until it was dissolved in 1933. From 1950 to 1972 he was a member of the Bamberg city council, in which he was chairman of his parliamentary group from 1955 and from 1957 to 1967. For an electoral period from 1966 to 1970, he was also a member of the Bavarian State Parliament as a directly elected member of the Bamberg-Stadt constituency . In his political career, landscape protection and spatial planning were among his core issues.

Web links

• Philipp Schmitt in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History