Ulrich Biel

Ulrich Biel (17 May 1907 in Berlin-Charlottenburg – 6 January 1996 in Berlin) was a German politician and representative of the Christian Democratic Union.

After studying law and political science in 1934, he emigrated to the United States because of his Jewish origins. After the end of World War II, he returned to Berlin as an American officer but became a German citizen again.

Political career In 1946, Biel was "a captain in the U.S. Army and head of the political division of the staff of the then Colonel, Frank L. Howley, the U.S. commandant in Berlin." In 1967 he was running for Berlin assembly against Willy Brandt, who at the time was Foreign Minister and candidate for the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She was in the same deportation on 5 September 1942 as International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame athlete Lilli Henoch. On 8 September 1943, both women were murdered at gunpoint by the Einsatzgruppen.

In her book, The Power of Solitude: My Life in the German Resistance, Marion Yorck von Wartenburg recounted that she met Biel at the end of 1946 when he joined his friend, Paulus van Husen, in visiting her house. They became friends and later romantic partners living together for some 50 years. Biel encouraged Marion to return to her dream of becoming a lawyer. She succeeded and later became a judge. She reflected on how Biel has impacted her stating, "Through him I have gained a lively relationship to politics and to public life in general."