Theodor Scharmitzel

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Theodor Scharmitzel (born October 10, 1878 in Cologne , † December 27, 1963 ); As a German politician was a co-founder of the Cologne CDU .

Life

Theodor Scharmitzel came from a long-established Cologne printer family. After graduating from the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gymnasium in 1899, he studied a. a. Theology and Philosophy in Tübingen, where he received his doctorate in 1908. There he joined the Catholic student union Unitas-Markomannia in 1900. He worked u. a. as a publisher, as a tutor to the Prince of Siam and later as Secretary General of the Windthorst Association for Germany. From 1945 to 1948 Scharmitzel was head of the Cologne food office.

Political activity

Although clearly to be assigned to political Catholicism , Scharmitzel had already quarreled with the center in 1919 . During the Nazi era, however, he found a field of activity as an organizer of oppositional connections within the framework of the Unitas and was therefore involved in the planning of a non-denominational party in Cologne in 1945. In June 1945, Scharmitzel helped prepare the founding of the CDU as a member of an eleven-person program commission in the Dominican monastery in Walberberg . Together with Leo Schwering and Peter Schaeven , Schwering knew the latter from working together in the Windthorstbund, he prepared the founding meeting of the Cologne Union on August 19, 1945 and chaired the meeting. Scharmitzel was also involved in the talks on founding the CDU-Westphalia in Bochum (August 2, 1945) and the CDU in the Rhineland.

Works and Estate

  • Christian Democrats in the New Germany. Cologne 1945. (Series of publications of the CDU, Landesverband Rheinland H. 1)
  • The State Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne 1869–1939. Cologne 1940.

A smaller part of the estate is in the archive for Christian-Democratic Politics in Sankt Augustin; the greater part was auctioned at the Venator auction house in Cologne and is privately owned.

literature

  • Leo Schwering: Prehistory and formation of the CDU . Cologne 1952 (1st edition under the title The emergence of the CDU , 1946).

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 1 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 1995, p. 358 .
personal data
SURNAME Scharmitzel, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1963