Walter Möller (politician, 1920)

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Walter Möller (born April 7, 1920 in Frankfurt am Main , † November 17, 1971 in Wiesbaden ) was a German local politician of the SPD .

Life

Walter Möller, active as a writer and editor, among others for the school radio of Radio Frankfurt , belonged to the SPD faction of the Frankfurt city parliament from 1948 on. From October 1961 he was head of the traffic department under the then mayor of Frankfurt Werner Bockelmann . He accompanied the planning, construction and operation of the Frankfurt subway by office, but also out of inner conviction. Möller himself undertook the first ramming stroke on June 28, 1963 and the opening run on October 4, 1968, for which he was trained by a city subway driver.

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“ Walter Möller was a distinguished social democrat. He himself attached great importance to the term socialist. "

- Willy Brandt

When he was elected as the new mayor by the city ​​council on June 11, 1970 and sworn in on June 9, 1970, his parliamentary group was convinced that there could be no better successor to the previously deceased Willi Brundert . But the state of health of the politically very active mayor soon deteriorated. On the way back from a conversation with the Hessian Prime Minister Albert Osswald Möller died of the consequences of a heart attack at the age of only 51. He was buried in the main cemetery in Frankfurt am Main (grave location: Gewann II, 202c). The grave is designated as an honor grave . His funeral procession followed the tunnel of the subway he initiated. In his honor, a square located directly at the north-west center is named, which thousands cross every day.

Another area in which Möller did important work during his brief tenure was regional policy. Above all, his concept of a regional city Frankfurt (1971) is known, a large commune divided into districts based on the model of Greater Berlin .

The city of Frankfurt am Main has been awarding the Walter Möller plaque in honor of him and his work since 1977 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Brandt: In: What remains. Walter Möller in his essays, speeches, quotes, interviews, Press and Information Office City of Frankfurt 1971
  2. ↑ Guide to the graves of well-known personalities in Frankfurt cemeteries . Frankfurt am Main 1985, p. 45
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician of the SPD
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1971
Place of death Wiesbaden