Gerhard Schröder (11 September 1910 – 31 December 1989) was a West German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party.

The son of a railway official, Schröder was born in Saarbrücken, then part of the Prussian Rhine Province.

In 1932 he finished his studies in Bonn he had committed himself to the university group of the national liberal German People's Party.

He continued his career as a law firm employee and in 1939 obtained an attorney's certificate and worked as a tax lawyer.

In the same month and perhaps in connection, he married his wife, Brigitte Schröder née Landsberg, needing - she was half-Jewish - with an extraordinary permission by his Armed Forces superiors.