Otto Walzel

Otto Walzel (born August 27, 1919 in Odrau , Moravia-Silesia , † July 24, 1991 in Ruthweiler ) was a German politician ( SPD , later CDU ).

Life

After attending elementary school and high school, Walzel completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1934 to 1937. He then worked as an export merchant until the outbreak of the Second World War . From 1939 to 1945 he was a war participant, most recently as an air force ensign and battery commander. He was wounded and attended Luftwaffenkriegsschule IV in Kitzingen until 1944 .

After the end of the war, Walzel had to take part in a court proceedings , as he had been active in the sporting field of the Hitler Youth from 1933 to 1938 . The central judgment chamber came to the decision on April 30, 1946 to give him parole. He was then employed in the administration of the Kusel district until 1950 . In 1950 he became managing director of the district's own non-profit housing association. In 1965 he switched to the district office as an employee.

Walzel joined the SPD in 1949 and was elected chairman of the SPD local association Kusel in 1957. He had been a member of the city council in Kusel since 1952 , from 1960 to 1964 first alderman and then alderman of the mayor's office. In the state elections in 1959 , 1963 and 1967 , he was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament through the SPD's state list, to which he belonged until 1971. In parliament he was from 1959 to 1963 a member of the border region committee, from 1963 to 1967 a member of the main committee and from 1967 to 1971 a member of the administrative reform committee. During the sixth legislative period resigned from the SPD. From October 1, 1969 he was a member of the CDU.

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 725–726.