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They bid on two typewritten, signed letters of the CDU politician and scientist Ferdinand Friedensburg (1886-1972).

Friedensburg was president of the 1945-68 German Institute for Economic Research and from 1964 Chairman of the Society for Geography in Berlin.

Addressed to Dr. Kurd-Wolfgang Schmeisser in Bremen, later documented as a librarian in Berlin. In 1972, Schmeisser published an article (probably an obituary) about Ferdinand Friedensburg, in: New German booklets, ed. v. Joachim Günther, issue 134 (1972).

Lt. According to these letters, Kurd-Wolfgang Schmeisser was a "grandson of my old fatherly friend, Mr. Berghauptmann Schmeisser", i.e. Miner Captain Kurt Schmeisser (1855-1924), director of the Oberbergamt in Breslau and member of the Prussian state parliament.

Dated "currently Berlin-Dahlem, Queen-Luise-Straße 5", the 4th and 8. January 1960.

This address is the address ofGerman Institute for Economic Research.

Concerns request for a letter of recommendation from Friedensburg for an application from Schmeisser or Arrange a personal meeting.

Format: A4.

Condition: Punched on the side, slightly browned and slightly creased. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: 2b/7

About Ferdinand Friedensburg (source: wikipedia):

Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Friedensburg (* 17. November 1886 in Schweidnitz, Province of Silesia; † 11. March 1972 in West Berlin) was a German politician (DDP, later CDU). From December 1946 to February 1951 he was deputy mayor of Greater Berlin. then West Berlin. During the Berlin blockade, he represented the ill mayor Louise Schroeder for three and a half months.

Youth and career: He was born on the 17th. Born in November 1886 in Schweidnitz, Silesia, as the son of the numismatist Ferdinand Friedensburg, he came into contact with politics at an early age. The family was liberal-conservative. His grandfather was Ferdinand Friedensburg and his brother was Walter Friedensburg. In 1889 the family moved to Berlin. He attended the Steglitz high school and, after graduating from high school and completing one year of practical training, began studying at the Prussian Mining Academy in Berlin. There he received a comprehensive academic education, both in natural sciences as well as in humanities and law.

He was initially a mountain trainee; Further studies took him to Marburg and to his Silesian homeland of Breslau. After completing his doctorate in geology, he passed his examination as a mining assessor in 1914. During his studies, Friedensburg joined the Association of German Students in Marburg. In the meantime, Friedensburg did his military service as a one-year volunteer with the 2. Silesian Field Artillery Regiment No. 42 in Schweidnitz.

First World War: On his return journey from a stay in America in 1914, Friedensburg (who had now reached the rank of lieutenant in the reserve) was interned by the British near Gibraltar. He attempted to escape in which he broke both legs. This meant that any career prospects in the mining sector were dashed. In 1916 he was discharged as no longer fit for military service and taken to Switzerland for medical treatment. He stayed there until the end of the war and worked for the German embassy in Bern.

Weimar Republic and National Socialism: After the end of the war, Friedensburg returned to Berlin and initially devoted himself to journalism. Friedensburg became a member of the liberal DDP. In 1920 he began a career in general administration and became district administrator of the Rosenberg district in West Prussia. He carried out his tasks with great care in the face of massive resistance from the large farmers living there. He became aware of him in Berlin and was entrusted with the office of police vice-president of the imperial capital. The steadfastness with which he stood up for the constitutional principles of the Weimar Republic and against extremism from the right and left in his office soon made his name a household name throughout Germany.

Because of pressure from German national forces, Ferdinand Friedensburg was “praised away” from Berlin and promoted to district president of Kassel in March 1927. The Kyffhäuser Association, the Association of German Students, excluded Friedensburg in 1926 because of its liberal republican stance. Friedensburg was involved in the Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold, which was loyal to the Republic.

The National Socialists initially gave him a leave of absence and released him from civil service in September 1933. During the time of National Socialist rule, he ensured his survival with scientific research in his old field of expertise, mining. In 1935 he was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo.

Post-war Germany

Mayor in Berlin: Due to its strict political abstinence during the Nazi dictatorship, Friedensburg was considered unpolluted after the war. He took over the management of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. Marshal Zhukov appointed him on January 1. August 1945 as President of the German Central Administration for the Fuel Industry in the Soviet occupation zone.

Friedensburg was a co-founder of the CDU in Berlin in 1945. Due to arguments with his two communist vice-presidents Gustav Sobottka and Bergholz, whom he accused of professional incompetence, he was dismissed a year later on charges of “tolerating fascist activities”. In October 1946, elections for the Berlin city council took place for the first time since the end of Nazi rule. The city parliament elected him on the 5th. December 1946 to 1. Mayor of Greater Berlin and thus deputy of the SPD mayor Otto Ostrowski.

When the incumbent mayor Louise Schroeder on 14. In August 1948, after a significant deterioration in her health, Friedensburg was flown to Hamburg for medical treatment. Friedensburg took over the official duties of mayor in the eighth week of the Berlin blockade. On the 30th In November 1948, a rally called by the SED took place in the Admiralspalast, which proclaimed a “provisional democratic magistrate”. Friedrich Ebert (SED) was appointed mayor. The Soviet command recognized the new magistrate as the only legitimate one. When Friedensburg wanted to enter his offices in the eastern sector, he was prevented from doing so by the People's Police. For 1. The split was finally completed in December.

Announcement of a campaign event for the 1949 federal election in Herne with Friedensburg as speaker.

On this date, Friedensburg's time as acting mayor also came to an end. Louise Schroeder formally took office until June 7th. December again. The ballot for the city council meeting was only allowed to take place in the western sectors. The Soviet city commander, General Kotikow, issued a ban on the eastern sector. Although the elections brought the SPD a landslide victory (64.5 percent), the coalition with the CDU and the LDP continued. Ferdinand Friedensburg was once again a member of the new city government as mayor. After another election on March 3rd On December 1, 1950, Friedensburg was no longer available to work in the new Senate and left on December 1st. Left office in February 1951.

MP: Friedensburg moved forward when the number of Berlin MPs was increased on January 1st. He entered the German Bundestag in February 1952 and was elected from the Berlin House of Representatives to the Bonn Parliament in the following three legislative periods, of which he was a member until 1965. From 1953 to 1957 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag Committee for the Protection of the Constitution and from 1957 to 1961 chairman of the “Electoral Committee in accordance with Section 6 of the Law on the Federal Constitutional Court of 12. March 1951”.

It belonged to the European Parliament from 27. February 1958 to 21. December 1965 also.

Scientific work: At the same time, he dedicated himself to his work as a scientist. From 1945 to 1968 he was president of the German Institute for Economic Research, which he expanded into a high-profile institute for basic economic research. He also worked intensively to promote the Society for Geography in Berlin, which he chaired from 1964 until his death. As a geoscientist and economist in one person, the interdisciplinary orientation of both sciences was very important to him. He managed to have the Alexander von Humboldt House built for the company in Berlin-Steglitz between 1963 and 1965. In the field of mining, he took on teaching positions and wrote scientific papers on mining and smelting topics. Friedensburg rejoined the Kyffhäuser Association after its re-establishment in 1953. In the tradition of student associations, he co-founded the Ferdinand Friedensburg Foundation named after him in 1969. In keeping with the spirit of the initiator, the task of the association, which is recognized as a non-profit organization, is to support students and young academics and to promote their scientific work on state policy issues. Also in 1969, Friedensburg wrote down his memoirs (Athenaeum). In 1946 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.[1]

Awards: In 1956 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with Star. In 1961 he received the Grand Federal Cross of Merit with star and shoulder ribbon. On 20. In October 1971, Ferdinand Friedensburg was made an honorary citizen of West Berlin. Wayne State University, the University of Detroit and Columbia University, New York City awarded him honorary doctorates.

In the Haselhorst district of the Berlin district of Spandau, the green area designed after the construction of the subway (U7) was opened at the meeting point of Gartenfelder Straße, Straße am Juliusturm, Nonnendammallee and Daumstraße on the 16th. September 1987 in Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Platz.[2]

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He is in the Nikolassee cemetery in field A no. Buried 10/11. There his grave is dedicated as an honorary grave for the city of Berlin.