Zeca Schall

Zeca Schall (born 1963 in Quitongo, Cuanza Sul Province, Angola) is an Angolan-German politician and Christian Democratic Union member in Thuringia.

Biography

Born Zeca Fonseca, he studied at an agricultural college in Angola. His father was killed in 1984 during the Angolan civil war. In 1988, Fonseca arrived in East Germany as a contract worker for Hildburghausen and trained in VEB Screws and Standard Parts Factory as a lathe operator. He married a German woman whose surname he took and applied in 1997 for German citizenship. In 2004, he became a German citizen and on the same day joined the CDU.

Political career

At the district council election in June 2009, Schall ran for Hildburghausen district council on list position 30 of the CDU, to be awarded at a total of 40 seats for the district council. Schall received 42 first-round votes and was not elected.

Schall's became known internationally during the 2009 Thuringia state election after he was threatened by the NPD. Schall was not running for office, but had been pictured alongside Minister-President Dieter Althaus and others on CDU election posters.