Ulrich Steiner

Ulrich Steiner (born August 21, 1908 in Laupheim , † December 25, 1961 in Munich ) was a German landowner and CDU politician .

Life

Steiner, a grandson of Kilian von Steiner , left school with the Abitur in 1920. He studied law and later economics, first in Munich and later in Tübingen . He was refused a degree because of his Jewish roots. In 1935 he took over Groß-Laupheim Castle , his family's property, and the family businesses. In 1939 he joined the Wehrmacht , from which he was released the following year as "not worthy of military service". He then managed the operations at his castle again, which was made more difficult by the chaos of war. After the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 , Steiner was imprisoned in the Leimbach labor camp near Mansfeld , a branch of the Buchenwald concentration camp . After the end of the war he was liberated by the Americans. In 1946 the sports club Olympia Laupheim was re-established by the occupying powers, which was also due to Steiner's commitment, who was then made honorary president of the club.

Steiner founded his own publishing house in 1947, in which his poems and later also speeches from the Laupheimer Kreis were published. He also had a stake in the Schwäbische Zeitung . Since he paid for the meetings of the Laupheimer Kreis himself, he ended up in financial distress. A few months before his death, Steiner sold a large part of his property to the city of Laupheim, including Großlaupheim Castle, which today houses the Museum of the History of Christians and Jews . He found his final resting place in the family cemetery in Oberdischingen . His brother-in-law Hubertus Graf Leutrum von Ertingen took over the farm.

politics

In 1929 Steiner joined the Stahlhelm , in 1932 he became a member of the NSDAP . Because of his Jewish descent, he was excluded from this class as a "mixed breed 1st class" only one year later.

In July 1945 he took over the post of Deputy Mayor of Laupheim for a short time. In the post-war period he helped found the CDU in Württemberg-Hohenzollern , where he was second chairman of the state board. In 1946 he was one of the signatories of the application for approval of the CDU city association Laupheim. Together with Adolf Pirrung, he was the chairman of the CDU district association in Biberach . In November 1946 Steiner was elected to the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Württemberg-Hohenzollern . There he was chairman of both the CDU parliamentary group and the constitutional committee, and he was also a member of the council of elders. After Franz Weiß withdrew , Steiner took over as managing director of the CDU Württemberg-Hohenzollern. At the federal level, he was a member of the executive board and the foreign policy committee of the CDU / CSU working group. Only a short time later he resigned all party offices, in 1950 he also retired from the CDU state executive committee, after having not played a major role within the party in previous years.

Laupheim district

In spring 1948 Steiner founded the Laupheimer Kreis, of which he was also a mentor. In the Laupheimer Kreis, different personalities met at Großlaupheim Castle to discuss essential questions about the Federal Republic, which is currently being established, and to exert influence on these points. Well-known participants included Paul Binder , Heinrich von Brentano , Fritz Erler , Theodor Eschenburg , Kurt Fried , Maximilian Egon zu Fürstenberg , August Haußleiter , Theodor Heuss , Kurt Georg Kiesinger , Otto Lenz , Klaus Mehnert , Gebhard Müller , Carlo Schmid , Hans Speidel , Rudolf Stadelmann , Hans-Christoph von Stauffenberg and Friedrich Schenk von Stauffenberg . In 1955, the circle dissolved after Steiner's views diverged further and further from those of the participants. In 1957 and 1960 he made attempts to revive the district, but they were unsuccessful.

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SURNAME	Steiner, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landowners and politicians (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Laupheim
DATE OF DEATH	December 25, 1961
Place of death	Munich