Walter Brookmann

Walter Brookmann (born April 23, 1901 in Rostock , † August 31, 1957 in Kiel ) was a German politician ( DVP , later CDU ). From 1927 to 1931 he was Secretary General of the DVP and from 1949 until his death he was Deputy Chairman of the Committee for All-German Issues and for All-German and Berlin Issues of the German Bundestag.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Stettin , Brookmann first completed a commercial apprenticeship. He then studied economics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the University of Greifswald . He was involved in the Berlin student movement, was a bookkeeper in the management of the international office of the German student body and was later co-owner of the publishing house for universities and abroad .

Brookmann had owned a bookstore in Szczecin since 1932. From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier and was most recently taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released in 1946.

Political party

Brookmann joined the DVP during the Weimar Republic . Since 1923 he was the second deputy chairman of the DVP Reich Youth Committee and deputy chairman of the National Youth Ring in Pomerania . From 1927 to 1931 he was Secretary General of the DVP.

Brookmann joined the CDU in 1946 and was CDU General Secretary in Schleswig-Holstein from August 1946 to October 1949 . He also published the magazine Union im Norden .

MP

Brookmann was a member of the German Bundestag from 1949 until his death in 1957 . There he was deputy chairman of the committee for all-German issues from 1949 to 1953 and from 1953 until his death deputy chairman of the committee for all-German and Berlin issues. Brookmann has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Kiel .

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 , pp. 102-103.