| Code | DS/UK/485 |
| Dates | 02/01/1876-20/04/1963 |
| Person Name | Schomerus; Friedrich (02/01/1876-20/04/1963); Dr. |
| Surname | Schomerus |
| Forenames | Friedrich |
| Title | Dr. |
| Activity | Managing Director of the new Hamburg Volksheim (1901-1903); travels to UK and USA to study gather information on the (social) situation of industrial workers; head of personnel at Carl Zeiss Werke (1906-); member of the Stadtverordnetenversammlung and chairman of the Fraktion der Deutschen Demokratischen Partei, member of the Finanz- und im Bauausschuss der Stadt Jena (1914-1933), remained with Carl Zeiss in a minor position during the II. WW, but returned as manager and representative of the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung afterwards. Member of the LDP (1946) in Jena and in the Thüringer Landtag in Weimar, from which he resigned in 1949. |
| History | Studied law and economics in Göttingen, Berlin, Leipzig und Tübingen. |
| Source | Johann Gerhard Schomerus, Geschichte der Familie Schomerus, part 3, Münster 1968, p. 66; part 4, Münster 1969, pp. 178-184; Deutsches Biographisches Archiv II; Ralf Springer, Biographische Studien zum Sozialreformer und Politiker Friedrich Schomerus (1876–1963), Oldenburg 2003; Ralf Springer, Im Auftrag von Carl Lahusen. „…alles selbst zu betrachten…“. Erkundungen des Sozialsekretärs Friedrich Schomerus in England 1903/04, in: Delmenhorster Springer, Heimatjahrbuch 2008. Reisebilder. Isensee, Oldenburg 2007, pp. 23-44; Lambert Grolle: Friedrich Riclef Schomerus. Sein Werden und Wirken, in: Jenaer Jahrbuch zur Technik- und Industriegeschichte (11) 2008, pp. 133-153;
"Friedrich Schomerus", URL: <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schomerus> [accessed 17/11/2010] |
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