Patrick Gordon Walker

Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker (born April 7, 1907 in Worthing , † December 2, 1980 in London ) was a British Labor Party politician .

Walker studied history at Wellington College ( Berkshire ) and Christ Church (Oxford) .

Between 1940 and 1944 he worked for the BBC's international radio and from 1942 for the German-language broadcasts. In 1945 he was deputy director of the German-speaking service of the BBC. He came to Germany as a front-line reporter with the British Army and reported on the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . He wrote the book "The Lid Lifts" about this exemption.

Between 1946 and 1948 he was chairman of the British Film Institute.

politics

After a failed candidacy in 1935, Walker was elected to a 1945 by-election in the Smethwick constituency and represented this constituency until 1964 and later, 1966 to 1974, the Leyton constituency in the House of Commons . He was a member of the government as Foreign Minister from 1964 to 1965 and then as Minister of Education. From 1974 he sat as a life peer with the title Baron Gordon-Walker , of Leyton in the County of Essex, in the House of Lords .

literature

• PC Gordon Walker: Wilton Park. in New Selection. 3rd year, volume 1 ed. Allied Information Service, Berlin 1948 (January) (excerpt from: "Changing Nations", Contact Book, London) pp. 55–62