Karl Walter (politician, 1901)
Karl Walter (born February 23, 1901 in Düsseldorf , † January 27, 1957 in Essen ) was a German metallurgist and from 1936 to 1945 a member of the Reichstag of the NSDAP .
Life
Walter completed his primary and secondary school in Saarbrücken in 1920 with the Abitur. In the same year he started studying iron and steel engineering at the Technical University in Aachen . In October 1923 he was expelled from Aachen by the French occupation authorities during the occupation of the Rhineland . Walter moved to the Saxon Mining Academy in Freiberg , where he graduated in April 1927 with a degree in metallurgy. From July 25, 1927, Walter worked as an engineer at the Mannesmannröhren-Werke in Düsseldorf. In 1936 he became head of the research institute there.
On June 19, 1925, Walter joined the NSDAP ( membership number 8.137) and the SA in the same year . Before that, in February 1925, he is said to have been involved in founding the local NSDAP group in Freiberg . In the party he took over the office of propaganda and organization director for the Freiberg-Stadt district until 1927. After moving to Düsseldorf, Walter became section head of the local NSDAP in March 1932, and from September 10, 1932 to 1934 he headed the local NSDAP group in Düsseldorf-Rath .
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Walter was first a city councilor, and later until 1935 councilor of the city of Düsseldorf. From August 22, 1934 until the end of the war, Walter was NSDAP district leader of the Gau capital Düsseldorf. On March 8, 1935, he became the Prussian Provincial Councilor of the Rhine Province . In March 1936, Walter received a mandate in the Reichstag that was meaningless during the Nazi era. During the Second World War, Walter was a member of the Waffen SS from June 4, 1940 . From November 1940 to January 1941 Walter attended a course for reserve leader candidates at the SS Junker School in Tölz. After two hospital stays, he was released from service in the Waffen SS on August 5, 1941; on April 20, 1941, he was promoted to Untersturmführer of the Reserve in the Waffen SS. From January 1, 1942, Walter worked full-time for the NSDAP and in April 1942 became senior director of the NSDAP. In 1943 or 1944, he submitted an application to the then Higher SS and Police Leader Karl Gutenberger for the release of 20 concentration camp prisoners for the construction of a “Kreisleiterbunker”, as it emerges from the files of the HSSPF.
After the end of the war, Walter was interned in the United States , then from July 1947 to August 14, 1948 in the British internment camp Fallingbostel . During the denazification on March 7, 1949, Walter was sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment by the court in Bielefeld on appeal, which were considered to have been served due to the internment. In August 1949, the denazification committee of the city district of Düsseldorf classified Walter in category III as a “minor offender”. From 1949 Walter worked as a representative of a leather goods factory, first in Walsrode and later in Essen.
literature
- 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 f .
Web links
- Karl Walter in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walter, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR and metallurgist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1957 |
| Place of death | eat |