Walter Althammer

Walter Althammer (born March 12, 1928 in Augsburg ) is a German lawyer and politician ( CSU ).

Life and work

Althammer was born as the son of Chief Police Officer Peter Althammer. After attending school in Augsburg, he briefly took part in the Second World War as an infantry soldier in 1945 and was taken prisoner. He then attended the boarding school run by the Marist School Brothers in Mindelheim , where he graduated from high school in 1948. In 1949 he began studying law and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of Political Sciences and worked alongside his studies as a construction worker and roofer. After the first state examination in law in 1952, Althammer completed a legal traineeship. In 1954, with his work The Concept of Participants in the Administrative Process, he became a Dr. jur. did his doctorate and then attended the administrative college in Speyer . In 1955 he became a research assistant to Theodor Maunz and in 1956 he finished his training with the second state examination in law.

Althammer worked as a lawyer in 1956/57, worked from 1957 to 1961 as a member of the administrative board of the Augsburg city administration and also worked as a teacher at the Bavarian Administration School. He was appointed to the senior government council in 1961 and was then appointed government director to the Bavarian Ministry for Education and Culture. Since 1972 he has been working as a lawyer again. Until 1984 he was a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Kompetenzbank , of which he was promoted to deputy chairman of the board in 1985 and of which he was chairman of the board from 1991 to 1993.

Althammer had been president of the Southeastern Europe Society in Munich since 1965 and was elected honorary chairman in 2000. He is a member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Ludovicia Augsburg. In 1983, after a 25-year marriage that resulted in three children, he was divorced and now lives in Königswinter .

Political party

Althammer joined the CSU and the Junge Union (JU) in 1952 and was chairman of the JU district association of Augsburg from 1955 to 1961. From 1978 to 1986 he was the second chairman of the CSU-affiliated Hanns Seidel Foundation .

MP

Althammer was elected to the German Bundestag for the first time in 1961 and always represented the Augsburg-Land constituency there as a direct candidate. from October 5, 1967 to the end of the 1969 electoral term, he was chairman of the audit committee. From 1976 to 1980 he was chairman of the committee of inquiry into the Strauss wiretapping . From 1980 to 1982 he headed the Foreign Cultural Policy subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee . From 1976 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1984 he was deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and at the same time deputy chairman of the CSU regional group in the Bundestag. On April 14, 1985, he resigned from the Bundestag. As a member of parliament, he was mainly active as a spokesman for his parliamentary group in the Bundestag's budget committee.

Awards

• 1970: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1979: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1993: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

Works

• Against terror. 1986, Bonn, currently published by Olzog Verlag , 236 pages

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 12.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Althammer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography at the Hanns Seidel Foundation