Walter Röber

Walter Röber (born September 16, 1894 in Magdeburg , † October 5, 1964 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Röber became an insurance employee , joined the Central Association of Employees and became a member of the SPD in 1912. He was a soldier in World War I and was seriously wounded. In 1919 he became Gauleiter of the Reich Association of War Disabled People in the Province of Saxony and co-founder of the Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold . Since 1924 Röber was a member of the city council in Magdeburg and the provincial parliament of Saxony. Röber was also a co-founder of the association "Local Committee for Workers' Welfare " in Magdeburg in 1927. When the National Socialists " seized power " in 1933, he was unemployed and placed in " protective custody " several times . It was not until 1940 that he was able to find work in an electrochemical plant in Berlin.

After the Second World War , Röber became politically active again and immediately joined the Free German Trade Union Confederation (FDGB). Because of the increasingly difficult circumstances, he switched to the Independent Trade Union Opposition (UGO) in 1948 , and finally in 1950 to stay with the German Employees' Union (DAG).

Röber was elected in the first election to the city council of Greater Berlin in 1946 . A few weeks later he was elected district mayor of Berlin-Wedding . In 1956 he resigned from office because of his poor health.

In his memory, the Walter Röber Bridge on Wiesenstrasse in the Berlin-Gesundbrunnen area across the Panke was named after him.

literature

Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 221 (331 pages).