Werner Schütz

Werner Schütz (born March 23, 1900 in Münster , † July 2, 1975 in Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ). He was Minister of Education in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1954 to 1956 and from 1958 to 1962 .

Life and work

Schütz was born the son of a Protestant pastor. After graduating from high school in 1918, he briefly took part in the First World War as a volunteer . He then began to study law in Münster and passed both state legal examinations. He settled in Düsseldorf as a lawyer in 1925 and was legal advisor of the Confessing Church from 1933 to 1945 . From 1962 to 1965 he was President of the German Shakespeare Society . In 1963 he was appointed to the board of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation .

Political party

After the Second World War , Schütz co-founded the CDU in Düsseldorf.

MP

Schütz was a council member of the city of Düsseldorf from 1945 to 1948. From 1958 to 1966 he was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament .

Public offices

In 1954, Schütz was appointed minister of education to the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia led by Prime Minister Karl Arnold . In this position he was replaced by Paul Luchtenberg in 1956 after the formation of the first social-liberal coalition . Two years later (1958) the CDU regained an absolute majority and Schütz was reappointed Minister of Education. In 1962 he was then replaced by Paul Mikat . The action against the Wuppertal professor and politician Renate Riemeck triggered the first sit-in strike by students in Germany in 1960 .

See also: Cabinet Arnold III - Cabinet Meyer's I

Web links

• Werner Schütz at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Literature by and about Werner Schütz in the catalog of the German National Library