Martin Schiele (17 January 1870 – 16 February 1939) was a German manufacturer (brickworks in Reckling and Neu-Schollene, which also included the starch factory in Neu-Molkenberg) and lord of the manor (Rittergut Neu-Schollene near Rathenow). Schiele was also a

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Life

He was part of the leadership of the

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(DNVP) from its 1918 founding until

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became leader in 1928. He was also the chief representative of the agrarian wing of the DNVP. As a member of

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's coalition government, Schiele secured the restoration of agricultural and industrial

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with the tariff of 1925. As minister of food in 1927–28, he favored state credit as a means for subsidising agriculture. He was persuaded by President Hindenburg to return as minister of food in Heinrich Brüning's cabinet. The Agricultural League under Schiele's leadership was criticised by

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agrarian apparatus. Schiele ceased to be leader of the Agricultural League shortly after the 1930 election. Unhappy with Hugenberg's leadership, Schiele left the DNVP and moved closer to the Conservative People's Party.Jones, p. 174.

Family

Schiele, who was of the Protestant faith, came from a farming family; his father was already a manor tenant.

Marriage

Schiele was married to Thekla, née Borchmann, daughter of the wealthy merchant and brickworks owner Theodor Hubert Borchmann (1824–1882).

Daughter Erika

On 14 July 1920, Erika Schiele (b. 26 January 1899) married her fiancé 1st Lieutenant Otto Lüdecke. Otto and Erika would have four children: * Gisela (b. 9 May 1921 in Staßfurt) * Joachim Otto (b. 13 January 1924 in Küstrin), 2nd Lieutenant of the Wehrmacht, killed-in-action on 1 July 1944 near Nowa Niwa * Klaus (b. 17 July 1926 in Stettin) * Christel Ingeborg Marianne (6 December 1931 in Berlin)

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