Walter Bockenkamp

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Election poster (1963)

Walter Bockenkamp (born September 19, 1907 in Groß Dahlum in the Wolfenbüttel district ; † June 21, 1994 in Hanover ) was a German politician.

Bockenkamp attended the Reformrealgymnasium in Forst (Lausitz) and later in Braunschweig . He then successfully completed a commercial apprenticeship in industry and business. Bockenkamp joined the NSDAP (membership number 725.675) as early as 1930 , where he worked as an SS man and political leader . He was entrusted with the establishment of the Wehrmacht as a clerk in senior management positions in the Air Force and in aviation research. This was followed by a front mission as battery chief , later he became 2nd General Staff Officer of an Air Force Field Division and Quartermaster of an Army Corps. He carried out this activity until the end of the war.

Immediately after the end of the war in 1945, he began to work as a self-employed haulage company and in agriculture. In 1947 he became the managing director of a food factory in Wiesbaden. Between 1948 and 1961 he was managing director and publishing director of a weekly newspaper for politics, economy and culture in Hanover. From 1955 to 1960 he was also a member of the Broadcasting Council of the NDR . After founding the Bundeswehr , he worked with the rank of major.

Politically, Bockenkamp was initially district chairman of the DP Hanover-Kleefeld / Kirchrode after the end of the war . From 1948 he was managing director and general secretary of the German party in Lower Saxony and Bonn. From 1948 to 1950 he was a councilor and parliamentary group chairman in Schwicheldt . In the 4th and 5th electoral term he became a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from May 6, 1959 to June 5, 1967. Bockenkamp switched to the CDU and was part of the CDU state parliament group from March 29, 1962.

In the 1961 Bundestag elections , he ran for the All-German Party , the merger of DP and GB / BHE .

source

  • About the person: Walter Bockenkamp. In: Rundblick 2007/169.
  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 40.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch: Brown roots - old Nazis in the Lower Saxony state parliament groups of the CDU, FDP and DP (PDF; 1.8 MB), published by the group Die Linke in the Lower Saxony state parliament, Hanover 2008, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Bockenkamp, ​​Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP, DP, CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel district
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1994
Place of death Hanover