Walter Bertsch

Walter Bertsch (born January 4, 1900 in Oppenweiler ; † January 5, 1952 in Brno ) was a German politician during the National Socialist era and Minister of Economics and Labor in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in Prague .

Walter Bertsch

Life

Bertsch was born in 1900 as the son of a pastor. In 1919 he became a member of the Normannia Association in Tübingen , where he studied law after completing school and then became a Dr. iur. received his doctorate . He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1933 (No. 2341107). From 1932 to 1933 he was senior magistrate in Welzheim and from 1934 to 1936 district administrator in the district of Göppingen . In 1934 he became a member of the Reich Air Protection Association and the Reich Air Sports Association and in 1936 was Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of Economics (Gaufachschaftsgruppe 7) in Berlin . From 1939 he was ministerial assistant to State Secretary Rudolf Brinkmann . In 1938 he joined the SS (No. 314169). In 1942 he was appointed Minister for Economy and Labor in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in Prague by Reinhard Heydrich , and in 1944 he was promoted to SS Brigade Leader.

On December 23, 1948, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Czechoslovakia , in which he died a good three years later.

“Habitat Bohemia and Moravia”, in: The Bohemia and Moravia Book, People's Struggle and Imperial Space , Prague, Amsterdam. Berlin, Vienna: Volk und Reich, 1943, pp. 412–423.

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 89-90.
Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 183 .