Erich Walch

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Erich Walch (born May 19, 1920 in Ludwigsthal ; † March 8, 2008 ) was a Saarland politician ( Communist Party / German Democratic Union ).

Walch attended elementary school and began studying music at the age of ten, which he completed in 1935. He then worked as a pianist until 1938 when he was called up for Reich Labor Service and military service. He then studied from 1942 at the Academic University of Music in Berlin , which he finished in 1945 as a diploma conductor.

Back in Saarland, he became politically active from 1946. He joined the Communist Party and worked as an editor at the party organ Neue Zeit . After the election to the state parliament of Saarland in November 1952 , he was able to move up for Paul Kärcher in parliament. In 1955 he was re-elected. Because of the KPD ban and the accession of the Saarland to the Federal Republic of Germany , the Federal Constitutional Court also ordered the ban on the Saarland KP in 1957 . In an election review procedure , the Saarland state parliament took part on 17./18. July 1959 determined that the mandates of the communist MPs Walch and Fritz Bäsel ceased to exist without replacement, but both were able to exercise their rights as members of the state parliament due to an interim order by the Saarland Constitutional Court . Most of the proceedings were discontinued in 1961. After that, Walch was a member of the state parliament from 1960 to 1965 as a member of the German Democratic Union.

literature

  • Landtag des Saarlandes (ed.): Manual. State Parliament of the Saarland. Saarbrücken 1957. p. 401.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claude Michael Jung: "The Saarland Landtag will keep him an honorable memory." On the death of the communist Landtag member Erich Walch. In: Berliner Umschau. March 14, 2008
  2. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court, decision of March 21, 1957, BVerfGE 6, 300
  3. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court, decision of October 10, 1961, Az. 2 BvN 1/60, BVerfGE 13, 165
  4. ^ Constitutional Court of the Saarland, decision of December 12, 1961, Az. Lv 5/59 ( Memento of January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Red stand-up man . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1961 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Walch, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsthal
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2008