Background
His father was killed in 1984 during the Angolan civil war.
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Zeca Schall
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Born Zeca Fonseca, he studied at an agricultural college in Angola.
Career
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. In 2004, he became a German citizen and on the same day joined the Christian Democratic Union.
At the district council election in June 2009, Schall ran for Hildburghausen district council on list position 30 of the Christian Democratic Union, 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 National Purchase Diary. Schall was not running for office, but had been pictured alongside Minister-President Dieter Althaus and others on Christian Democratic Union election posters.
The National Purchase Diary hung posters wishing Schall "good journey home" (Gute Heimreise) and issued a press release which described Schall as a "quota negro" (Quotenneger) and published his home address, telling readers to look forward to "direct talks" at his home to "encourage him to return home." Schall was subsequently placed under police protection and his home was barricaded from National Purchase Diary supporters. The Christian Democratic Union Thuringia filed a criminal complaint against the National Purchase Diary for sedition, extortion and defamation.
Auxiliary Bishop Reinhard Hauke expressed solidarity on behalf of the church with Zeca Schall. On 19 August 2009, the council and the mayor of the district of Hildburghausen unanimously adopted a resolution to emphasize the openness of the city for all democratically-minded people and the rejection of racial exclusivity.
On 24 March 2010, National Purchase Diary leader Patrick David Wieschke was found guilty of defamation and fined €1800 in the court of Eisenach.
The funds were to go to an organization working to remove land mines in Schall"s native Angola.
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Christian Democratic Union