Hellmut Walter

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Hellmut Walter

Hellmut Winfried Walter , also Helmut Walter , (born March 2, 1908 in Steinpleis , † December 6, 1991 in Haar (near Munich) ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending primary school , Walter completed a three-year apprenticeship at the Werdau commercial college . He then worked as a bank clerk in the branches of Commerz- und Privat-Bank in Zwickau and Werdau, most recently as authorized representative of the Reichsbank accounting and as head of the check department. In 1929 Walter left the bank at his own request to take on the position of managing director at Hertel's iron foundry in Werdau.

In 1922 Walter began to get involved politically in circles of the extreme political right: until 1926 he was a member of the National Socialist youth associations Treudeutsch, Großdeutsche Jugend, Frontbann -Jugend and the Hitlerjugend (HJ). At the end of 1926 he became a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 835); he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 57.857) in March 1927. Since 1929 he appeared as a party speaker. From 1929 to 1934 Walter served as the local group leader of the NSDAP in Steinpleis. He was also sub-district leader of the NSDAP and municipal councilor of Steinpleis.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Walter was full-time political director of the NSDAP from March 1934. Initially head of the district office of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) for Zwickau and the NSDAP's district trainer there, he moved to Dresden in June 1934 , where he was district leader of the NSDAP until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945. From March 1936 to the spring of 1945, Walter was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 28 (Dresden-Bautzen) . Walter was also a member of the Saxony Chamber of Labor. Walter was promoted several times in the General SS, most recently in June 1944 to SS-Obersturmbannführer .

During the Second World War , Walter volunteered for the Waffen SS in June 1940 . Last promoted to Obersturmführer of the Reserve of the Waffen SS in January 1944, he belonged to the SS Volunteer Mountain Division “Prinz Eugen” and the V SS Mountain Corps . In March 1944 he was made indispensable and resumed his work as district leader for Dresden.

literature

  • Annekatrin Jahn: Cuno Meyer and Hellmut Walter. Dresden's NSDAP district leader , in: Christine Piper, Mike Schmeitzner, Gerhard Naser (Hrsg.): Brown careers. Dresden perpetrators and actors in National Socialism . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2012, pp. 51–57.
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 707 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annekatrin Jahn: Cuno Meyer and Hellmut Walter. Dresden's NSDAP district leader , in: Christine Piper, Mike Schmeitzner, Gerhard Naser (Hrsg.): Brown careers. Dresden perpetrators and actors in National Socialism . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2012, pp. 51–57, here p. 56.
  2. ^ Andreas Peschel: The development of the Dresden NSDAP up to 1933, in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch 18 (2013), p. 151–170, here p. 168–169.