31 Facts About Georg Schreiber

Georg Schreiber was a German politician and church historian.

Georg Schreiber spent fifteen years as a student which, even by the standards of Wilhelmine Germany, was exceptional.

Georg Schreiber nevertheless ended up with an unusually broad university-level education.

Georg Schreiber was born in Rudershausen, a small yet ancient village set in the wooded countryside to the north of Duderstadt.

Georg Schreiber attended a church school at Duderstadt between 1885 and 1895, then moving on to the "Gymnasium Josefinum" in Heidesheim till 1901 and then enrolled at the University of Munster where he studied Theology.

On 7 April 1905 Georg Schreiber was ordained into the priesthood at Heidesheim.

Georg Schreiber now broadened the scope of his university education, studying History and Germanistics.

Georg Schreiber received his first doctorate from Berlin University on 26 June 1909, and then in 1911 - still at Berlin - switched to the study of Jurisprudence.

Georg Schreiber retained his professorship without a break till 1933, despite his election to the Reichstag in 1920, and his church promotion to the rank of Papal Domestic Prelate in 1924.

Nevertheless, described later by his biographer Rudolf Morsey as a "worker bee of parliament" and a "key figure in the politics of culture and the arts at a national level", Georg Schreiber needed a reliable deputy for his university teaching duties, a role undertaken by the church historian Ludwig Mohler.

In 1927, with financial backing from the Foreign Ministry, Georg Schreiber set up the university's research centre for "Auslandsdeutschtum und Auslandkunde".

Those from the political centre, such as Georg Schreiber, were not in such immediate peril, but as a Member of Parliament who had never shown any interest in backing Hitler, Schreiber quickly became a focus of government suspicion.

The party did not give up and Georg Schreiber was now placed under house arrest, while the security services continued to try and find reasons to reopen the case against him.

Georg Schreiber avoided capture in the aftermath of the assassination attempt, already aware that he was likely to be at heightened risk of detention, and having evidently received timely warnings from insiders.

Early in 1947 Georg Schreiber reached the then conventional retirement age of 65.

In July 1945 Georg Schreiber was able to return to Munster.

Georg Schreiber believed the integration of the proper spiritual dimension was fundamental to the operation of a modern society, and was able to call on his deep knowledge of the Medieval church and legal history in promoting his own visions for foreign and cultural policy.

Georg Schreiber eventually retired on 1 April 1951, a couple of months after celebrating his seventieth birthday.

Georg Schreiber joined the boards of a number of academic institutions, working to rebuild German academic tradition in the western part of the now divided country.

Towards the end of 1918, with old certainties dissolving in the dismal aftermath of a catastrophic war, George Schreiber launched himself as a politician of the Centre Party, which was seen by many as the political manifestation of Catholic Germany.

Georg Schreiber embarked on his political career by authoring a succession of newspaper articles, sometimes using the pseudonym "Richard Richardy", and by delivering speeches at party meetings.

Georg Schreiber stood as a candidate for the "Westphalia North" electoral district and was directly elected.

Georg Schreiber sought to improve collaboration between religious and worldly elements.

Georg Schreiber was an influential member of the parliamentary budget committee.

Georg Schreiber was keen to sustain the empire tradition, despite recent evisceration by foreign armies and internal fissures, but still a "great power spiritually, culturally and scientifically".

Georg Schreiber was centrally engaged, virtually throughout the 1920s, in the extensive preparatory work for the so-called Prussian Concordat signed in 1929 and designed to place the relationship between the German republic and the Holy See on a regular legal footing.

When Georg Schreiber thereby lost his parliamentary mandate, he lost a number of other representative role and responsibilities at the same time.

Georg Schreiber failed to gain a seat, and thereafter concentrated on his work at the university, taking a number of significant positions at the interface between the universities sector and politics.

Goerg Georg Schreiber was one of the most eminent culture and church historians of his generation.

Georg Schreiber produced several important works on German administrative history and on socio-cultural themes.

Georg Schreiber's work on the history of wine making in Germany and central Europe was a case in point.