Curt Walter

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Curt Walter (born November 2, 1877 in Havelberg , † March 31, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German administrative officer. Walter was a consultant in the Reich Chancellery from 1922 to 1933 .

Life and activity

Walter was the son of a councilor at the district court . Since 1897 he was a middle official in the Prussian judicial service. From 1901 to 1906 he worked as an office clerk at the supervisory office for private insurance , and since 1940 in the rank of expeditionary secretary. In 1906 he was given a position as an unskilled worker in the Reich Office of the Interior , where he was promoted to secret expediting secretary in 1911.

On October 24, 1915, Walter moved to the Reich Chancellery as an unskilled worker. On April 1, 1917, he was promoted to court councilor there.

After the collapse of the German Empire, Walter was accepted into the civil service of the newly founded Weimar Republic . He retained his position in the Reich Chancellery. On April 1, 1922, he was promoted to government councilor and appointed personal assistant to the Reich Chancellor. In this capacity he served ten Reich Chancellors from Joseph Wirth to Adolf Hitler for the next eleven years . On October 1, 1927, he was promoted to the Upper Government Council.

A few weeks after the National Socialists came to power , Walter was retired on April 22, 1933.

literature

  • Peter Christian Witt: “Conservatism as 'non-partisan'. The officials of the Reich Chancellery between the Empire and the Weimar Republic 1900-1933 ”, in: Dirk Stegmann (Ed.): German Conservatism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Festschrift for Fritz Fischer on his 75th birthday and on the 50th anniversary of his doctorate , Berlin 1983, p. 277.

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SURNAME Walter, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Havelberg
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1942
Place of death Berlin