Wolfgang Schollwer

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Wolfgang Schollwer in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach , 2015

Wolfgang Schollwer (born February 13, 1922 in Potsdam ) is a former German politician ( LDP , FDP ), functionary , ministerial advisor and author who lives in Bonn today.

Schollwer was best known as a “pioneer of liberal détente policy ” in the East-West conflict of the “ Cold War ”. The FDP 's plans for Germany (“ Schollwer Plans ”) of 1962 and 1967 come from him, in which a policy of rapprochement between the two German states that existed at the time was conceived.

Schollwer, who in 1945 as a former lieutenant of the reserve in the Wehrmacht, had been denied medical studies in the Soviet occupation zone , initially worked as state secretary of the LDP in Brandenburg in the political reconstruction before he fled to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1950 and joined the FDP there. From 1951 to 1957 he was deputy, most recently acting head of the FDP East Office in Bonn. As a consultant for the foreign and German policy of the FDP and editor-in-chief of the " free democratic correspondence " (fdk) (1959–1970), Schollwer had a decisive influence on the opening of his party in Ostpolitik . In 1972 he joined the Foreign Office's planning team as a consultant , to which he was a member until his retirement in 1987. From 1986 to 1990 Schollwer was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

Documents about his activities for the FDP are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit in Gummersbach . The archive has published several volumes of his records.

Publications

  • Potsdam Diary 1948–1950. Liberal politics under Soviet occupation. Edited by Monika Faßbender , Oldenbourg, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-486-54581-7 .
  • Liberal leaders - the party leaders . In: Wolfgang Mischnick (Hrsg.): Responsibility for freedom. 40 years FDP DVA, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-421-06500-4 , pp. 440-463.
  • Liberal opposition to Adenauer. Records 1957–1961. Edited by Monika Faßbender, Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55831-5 .
  • FDP in transition. Records 1961–1966. Edited by Monika Faßbender, Oldenbourg, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-56003-4 .
  • “Germany as a whole is our obligation”. Notes from the FDP East Office 1951–1957. Edited by Jürgen Frölich , Edition Temmen, Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-86108-043-5 .
  • "There is still a lot of persuasion to be done in the FDP ...". Records from the FDP federal office 1966–1970. Edited by Jürgen Frölich, Edition Temmen, Bremen 2007, ISBN 3-86108-887-8 .

literature

  • Christof Brauers: Liberal Germany Policy 1949–1969. Positions of the FDP between national and European orientation. Lit Verlag, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-89473-487-6 .
  • Michael Schmidt: The FDP and the German Question 1949–1990. Lit Verlag, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-8258-2631-7 .
  • Mathias Siekmeier: Restoration or Reform? The FDP in the sixties - Germany and Ostpolitik between reunification and détente. Janus Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-922977-51-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schollwer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP) and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam