Richard Schönborn

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Richard Schönborn

Richard Schönborn (born February 13, 1878 in Berlin , † March 3, 1957 in West Berlin ) was a German politician ( center , CDU ).

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After attending elementary school, Schönborn completed a commercial apprenticeship. Later he attended business school and attended lectures at the university. In 1898 he participated in the founding of the Berliner Windthorstbunde , whose district chair he took over in 1905 and whose secretary he took over in 1906. In 1911 he became chairman of the organization of the Catholic Center Party in Brandenburg (including Berlin).

From October 1915 to December 1918 Schönborn took part in the First World War.

After the end of the war, Schönborn lived as a commercial clerk in Berlin-Neukölln . Johannes Fest , the father of the journalist Joachim Fest, was one of his close friends in the local branch of the Center Party, in which he began to be active again . At the beginning of 1924 Schönborn took over his first political office when he moved into the district assembly of Berlin-Neukölln. In August 1925 he entered the third Reichstag of the Weimar Republic elected in December 1924 as a representative of constituency 2 (Berlin) in the replacement procedure for the deceased MP Paul Beusch . After his mandate was confirmed in the May 1928 election, he was a member of the German parliament for almost five years, until the Reichstag election in September 1930 .

Schönborn was also a member of the Reich Committee of the Center Party and of the Association of Catholic-Commercial Associations in Germany.

Honorary grave of Richard Schönborn

After the Second World War , Schönborn became a member of the CDU, for which he became a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . On the occasion of his 75th birthday in 1953 he was awarded the title of city ​​elder . After his death in 1959 he was buried in the old St. Michael cemetery. The grave is dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honor grave .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : BIORAB-Online.
  2. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Sunday edition of December 8, 2007, p. 46.
  3. ^ Hans Joachim Reichhardt: Berlin. Chronicle of the years 1951-56 , 1968, p. 634.
personal data
SURNAME Schönborn, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, CDU), MdR, MdA
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1957
Place of death West Berlin