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Hans Schuberth | |
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| Federal Minister of Post and Telecommunications | |
| In office 20 September 1949 – 9 December 1953 | |
| Chancellor | Konrad Adenauer |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Siegfried Balke |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1897-04-05)5 April 1897 |
| Died | 2 September 1976(1976-09-02) (aged 79) |
| Citizenship | Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Party | CSU |
| Occupation | Politician |
Hans Schuberth (April 5, 1897 inSchwabach – September 2, 1976 inMunich) was a Germanpolitician who from 1949 to 1953 was the firstFederal Minister of Post and Telecommunications inKonrad Adenauer's first cabinet.
After graduation in 1914 Schuberth participated as a soldier in theFirst World War. After being seriously wounded, as a result of which he had to have a leg amputated, he was from 1915 to 1916 working as an intern at a machines factory in Germany inDortmund. After he graduated in 1916 to studymechanical engineering at theTechnical University Munich, which he finished in 1920 as a graduate engineer (mechanical engineering). During his studies he became a member of the Catholic Student Association KDSt.V. Rheno - Franconia in Munich CV. He then worked as an engineer at the German Werke AG in Dachau andMunich. From 1925 to 1926 he completed an additional study ofelectrical engineering, which he also graduated with a diploma. He then entered 1926 in the service of theReichspost. In 1934 he was forcibly transferred to the Reich Central Post Office inBerlin and, since he refused to join the Nazi party, no longer promoted. He worked at the Reich postal Central Directorate from 1937 inLandshut, then from 1943 in Munich.
After theSecond World War, he was appointed in 1945 as Vice President of Oberpostdirektion Munich. In October 1945, he became president of the Postal DirectorateRegensburg. In 1947, he was appointed President of the MunichOberpostdirektion.
In 1947 he was appointed Secretary of State for Posts and Telecommunications in the Bavarian State Ministry of Transport. From 1947 to 1949 he was then elected Director of the Department of Posts and Telecommunications in the administration of the United Economic Area inFrankfurt am Main. After the general election in 1949 he was appointed on 20 September 1949 as theFederal Minister of Post and Telecommunications in thefirst cabinet ofKonrad Adenauer. While in this position he proposed putting the image ofpresidentTheodor Heuss ona stamp, which the latter objected against for fear of being likened withAdolf Hitler who also had stamps with his image.[1] After theparliamentary elections of 1953, he retired under the pretext of sectarianproportional representation in the Cabinet at the request of Adenauer, who wanted above all to weaken the CSU, before the appointment of his successor in office the ProtestantSiegfried Balke on 9 December 1953 to the Federal Government. Schuberth was then briefly at 1953/54, special ambassador to theVatican.
Schuberth was a deputy of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1957 as representative of the constituency ofLandshut. In 1957 he brought together with other members of parliament from CSU and DP a bill to repeal Article 102 of theBasic Law, to reintroduce thedeath penalty with the objective of which, however, never came to a vote.
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