Ulrich Biel
Ulrich Eduard Biel (actually Bielschowsky; born May 17, 1907 in Charlottenburg, † 9 January 1996, Berlin) was a German jurist and politician ( CDU). Biel is considered as the discoverer of Konrad Adenauer for the German post-war politics.
Life
From a Silesian family of merchants coming and the son of a lawyer Charlottenburg, Bielschowsky studied law and political science at Geneva and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1934 at the University of Bonn on succession. After the " takeover " by the NSDAP Bielschowsky looked but because of his Jewish origin and the racial laws prevented in a planned legal career, so he emigrated in 1934 to New York.
In emigration he married on May 12, 1941 in New York Kadidja Wedekind ( 1911-1994 ), daughter of the writer Frank Wedekind, who emigrated in 1937 and worked at theaters in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Here he took American citizenship and the last name " Biel " to. Biel was employed as a consultant of General Patton.
After the end of World War II Biel returned as a captain in the U.S. Army back to Berlin and entered into the service of the U.S. State Department and was used in the Allied commander for the city of Berlin.
In 1952 he took the German citizenship again, passed the state exam and became a lawyer and notary in Berlin. Since the divorce of Kadidja Wedekind in the same year he was for many years life companion of Marion Gräfin Yorck von Wartenberg (1904-2007), the resistance fighter Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenberg widow; marriage with Kadidja Wedekind remained childless.
Biel was considered a gray eminence and confessed anti-communist. Biel moved the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats Gustav Dahrendorf Ernst Lemmer to escape from the Soviet zone. The career of Ernst Reuter was supported by Biel, against his inner-party opponents, the short-term Mayor Otto Ostrowski.
His friends included Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who came in the late 1950s to his house warming to Dahlem / Zehlendorf.
In the 1960 Biel was a member of the CDU in West Berlin. From March 14 1971 to April 23, 1979, he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives for the Wedding district; among other things, he was interim president in the 6th term.
Honors
Ulrich Biel was honored for his achievements with the Ernst -Reuter- plaque and 1987 with the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany. The CDU parliamentary group in the Borough Assembly unsuccessfully claimed to appoint a square or a street after him.