Claus Schöndube: : [Fonds], 1911-2006

Resource Information

The work Claus Schöndube: : [Fonds], 1911-2006 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/Collection, Multimedia, Mixed Materials.

Label

Claus Schöndube: : [Fonds], 1911-2006

Title remainder

[Fonds]

Inclusive dates

1911-2006

Creator

• Schöndube, Claus

Subject

• Clippings (Books, newspapaers, etc.)
• Correspondence
• Europa-Haus (Bad Marienberg, Germany)
• Europa-Union Deutschland -- History -- Sources
• Europe -- Economic integration
• European Economic Community
• European Parliament -- Elections
• European Union -- Germany
• European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- Germany
• European federation
• Germany -- Relations -- European Union countries
• Citizenship -- Europe
• Photographs
• Representative government and representation -- European Economic Community countries
• Schöndube, Claus -- Correspondence
• Union européenne des fédéralistes -- History -- Sources
• Youth -- Europe
• Interviews

Genre

• Correspondence
• Interviews
• Photographs
• Sources
• Clippings (Books, newspapaers, etc.)

Language

• ger
• eng
• fre
• ita
• dut
• ger
• ger

Summary

The fonds consists of 489 files of documents (23 linear meters), the bulk of the documents dating from the years 1970 to 2002. The years as a fellow federalist activist of A. Spinelli and the establishment of the association 'Europe House Marienberg' in the Westerwald as well as his early writings and readings are also documented. His work for the idea of a united Europe since his early youth can be seen in all his activities both as a member of the ' Europa-Union Deutschland' (EUD) and of the 'Union of European Federalists' (UEF), as well as his work as a journalist, writer and author of numerous papers and articles. Of special interest are his albums of photographs, brochures, stickers, postcards, etc. of various European subjects as well as recordings of interviews, speeches and radio broadcasts. Also 148 publications, some by Claus Schöndube himself, were partly integrated into the library catalogue and some in the collection of documents 'HADOC' of the Historical Archives of the European Union. The documents are written mainly in German

Biographical or historical data

Claus Schöndube was a German federalist from an early age: in 1947 he was member of the "Europa-Union Deutschland" and in 1957 of the "Union of European Federalists" (UEF). In 1951 he was also co-founder of the first "Europa-Haus" in 'Marienberg (Westerwald)' and of the "Bund Europäischer Jugend" (1957). As UEF's vice-president in 1974, he participated uninterruptedly until 1997 in many federalist, pro-European movement's governing bodies and committees on regional, national and international level. Author and publicist, from 1970 to 1987 accredited journalist with the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Claus Schöndube published innumerable texts on the subject of European integration in which he commented and analysed the political-institutional process while promoting ideals and ideas about Europe. Amongst others, he was conferred the "Bundesverdienstkreuz am Band" (Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany), the "Robert Schuman Medaille in Gold" and the "Altiero-Spinelli" Gold Medal.

Cataloging source

IT-FiEUI

Language note

Fonds in German, English, French, Italian, Dutch. Inventory in German