Karl Walz

This article deals with the politician Karl Walz. For other people see Carl Walz .

Karl Walz (born October 22, 1900 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † April 17, 1990 in Saarbrücken ) was a German CDU politician .

Life and work

Walz, who had lived in the Saar area since 1930 , was active in the Catholic trade union movement before 1935 . From 1948 to 1950 he was district secretary in Saarbrücken and managing director of several individual Christian trade unions.

Political party

Until the integration of the Saar area into the German Reich and the associated dissolution of the Center Party , Walz was active there. After 1945 he became a member of the CVP . After he came into conflict with the party leadership on the question of business affiliation, he had to resign from his office. Walz then resigned from the CVP and on June 4, 1952 became a co-founder and 2nd chairman of the unapproved Saar CDU. After the referendum, he returned to Saarland and became district chairman of the CDU in Saarbrücken and, on March 18, 1956, deputy state chairman.

MP

In 1953, Walz was elected to the German Bundestag on the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU state list and therefore expatriated from Saarland. He then settled with his family in Trier until the referendum . In the Bundestag he was one of the opponents of the Saar Statute .

Honors

• 1967: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1976: Saarland Order of Merit

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 921.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 4 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken January 28, 1976, p. 67 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; accessed on May 25, 2017]).