Robert Walkenhorst

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Robert Walkenhorst (born December 23, 1891 in Heepen , today Bielefeld , † September 25, 1973 ) was a German social democratic politician.

Walkenhorst was a locksmith and from 1933 also worked as managing director of the social democratically oriented consumer cooperative in Bielefeld . With the beginning of the Nazi era , he lost this position. He was unemployed until 1934 and then worked as a sales representative until 1939. Then he worked as a locksmith again. In 1941 and 1942, Walkenhorst was in " protective custody ". In the course of the grating action , he was held prisoner in Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1944 to 1945 .

After the liberation he found a job with the supply ring. In 1946 he was a delegate at the Reich Party Congress of the SPD in Hanover. In the same year he became a member of the Provincial Council of Westphalia and in 1946 and 1947 belonged to the appointed state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . At times, Walkenhorst was also the sub-district chairman of his party.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The communal synchronization 1933. (PDF; 233 KB) In: spd-bielefeld.de. Archived from the original on December 10, 2015 ; accessed on May 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ Robert Walkenhorst at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
  3. ↑ Reich Party Congress of the SPD . In: Sozialistische Mitteilungen - News for German Socialists in England . No. 87 . SPD representation in London, June 1946, p. 2 ( library.fes.de [accessed on May 11, 2018]).

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SURNAME Walkenhorst, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Heepen
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1973