Martin Schiele

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 nationalist (German Conservative Party, DNVP, CNBL), member of the Reichstag, President of the Reichslandbund, the interest group representing farmers in the German Reich, founder of the Christian National Farmers' and Rural People's Party, and in the Weimar Republic briefly Reich Minister of the Interior and twice Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture.

Life Schiele, who was of the Protestant faith, came from a farming family with his father being a manor tenant. He first entered politics in 1897 with the German Conservative Party by serving as a member by Stendal's city council later joining the Reichstag in 1914, being re-elected in 1919 as a founding member of the DNVP.

He was part of the leadership of the German National People's Party (DNVP) from its 1918 founding until Alfred Hugenberg became leader in 1928. He was also the chief representative of the agrarian wing of the DNVP. As a member of Hans Luther's coalition government, Schiele secured the restoration of agricultural and industrial protectionism with the tariff of 1925. As minister of food in 1927–28, he favored state credit as a means for subsidising agriculture. From August of 1928 to October of 1930 he served as leader of the Agricultural League, a right-wing agricultural association. Both in government and the League he aligned himself with the Junkers and with nationalism, supporting Eastern Aid and opposing Gustav Streseman's foreign policy. The Agricultural League under Schiele's leadership was criticised by Richard Walther Darré's Nazi agrarian apparatus. Unhappy with Hugenberg's leadership, Schiele left the DNVP and joined the newly founded CNBLP.

After the rise of the Nazis he retired to his estate in Mecklenburg.

Family 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)