Oscar Schneider

In 1944 he was called up to the Reich Labour Service and the Air Force. The seventeen-year-old was wounded in the Battle of Berlin, but escaped towards Magdeburg on 29 April 1945. After a short American captivity, he was able to return home.^[2]

Schneider was a member of the CSU from 1953. From 1957 to 1991 he was a member of its state board. He was also chairman of the CSU district association in Nuremberg-Fürth for many years. From 1956 he was a member of the Nuremberg city council and chairman of the CSU parliamentary group from 1960 to 1969. From 1966 to 1970 he was also a member of the Middle Franconian district council.^[3] From 1969 to 1994 he was a member of the German Bundestag.^[3] Here he was chairman of the committee for regional planning, construction and urban development from 1972 to 1982. From 1991 to 1994 he was cultural policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. Schneider was most recently elected to the German Bundestag via the Bavarian state list (12th electoral term in 1990).