Adolph Schönfelder

Heinrich Ferdinand Adolph Schoenfelder ( born April 5, 1875 in Hamburg, † May 3, 1966 ) was a German politician ( SPD). From 1948 to 1949 he was interim president of the Parliamentary Council.

Life and career

After attending elementary school Schoenfelder did an apprenticeship as a carpenter. During the First World War, he fought on the Eastern Front and was there received the Iron Cross 2nd Class, but he refused. From 1921 to 1926 he was Chairman of the Central Association of carpenters. During the Second World War Schoenfelder was accused of treason and imprisoned, but later released. After the mayor - Stolten medal he had been awarded in 1946, he was appointed in 1950 an honorary citizen of the city of Hamburg and an honorary senator of the University of Hamburg.

On May 3, 1966 Schoenfelder succumbed to the consequences of a gall bladder operation. According to him, the Adolph - Schoenfelder Street is named in Hamburg- Barmbek -South, as well as the Adolph - Schoenfelder Elementary School, also in Barmbek -south.

Party

He joined the SPD in 1902. From 1946 to 1962 he was Chairman of the SPD Control Commission.

Member of Parliament

Schoenfelder was from 1919 until its dissolution in 1933 and then again from 1945 to 1961 member of the Hamburg Parliament, which he was president from 1946 to 1960. 1948/49, he was also a member, first vice president and interim president of the Parliamentary Council. In this capacity he made on 23 May 1949 together with Konrad Adenauer and Hermann Schäfer, the Basic Law of; the Bill of Rights bears his signature.

Public offices

Schoenfelder was March 18, 1926 to March 3, 1933 to the Senate of Hamburg as a police Senator ( → Hamburg Senate from 1919 to 1933 ). As part of the takeover of power by the Nazis in Hamburg Schoenfelder went, along with his SPD Senate colleagues, on 3 March 1933 by his Senate post in order to enter the kingdom of no reason for engaging in the Hamburg autonomy. Paul de Chapeau Rouge became his successor, who also resigned from the Senate three days later, after the police force had been transferred by the Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick to the SA- Standartenführer Alfred Richter. After the Second World War Schoenfelder was 1945/46, Second Mayor of Hamburg.