Walter Conrad (politician)

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Walter Conrad (born January 30, 1892 in Barby ; † July 9, 1970 in West Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician ( FDP ).

Life

After attending a Berlin high school, Conrad studied law and political science at the University of Berlin from 1910 . From 1914 to 1918 he did military service in the First World War . In 1919 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. From 1919 to 1930 he was a member of the German People's Party (DVP). From 1922 he worked in the Prussian Ministry of Justice, then in the Reich Ministry of the Interior , was a government councilor from 1925, senior government councilor from 1929 and Reich broadcasting commissioner from 1932. As a church advisor in the Ministry of the Interior until February 1934, he was significantly involved in the disputes between church and state. From 1933 to 1943, as Ministerialrat, he was chairman or deputy chairman of the German Central Border Commission .

After the Second World War , Conrad became a member of the LDP . From 1947 to 1948 he was Senate President at the Higher Regional Court in Potsdam . In 1948 he moved to West Berlin and the FDP . From December 7, 1948 to 1949 he was a city councilor and from 1951 to 1954 Senator for Health in Berlin. Berlin's Governing Mayor Ernst Reuter ( SPD ) died on September 29, 1953 . With his death, the three-party coalition consisting of the SPD, CDU and FDP broke up. The SPD went into opposition, the CDU and FDP formed the new government . Walther Schreiber became the new governing mayor, Conrad was elected as his deputy (mayor of Berlin) and health senator.

In view of the violent indignation of the West Berlin population over Conrad's behavior in questions of reparation for Nazi injustice in the case of the pharmacist Brandt, the Berlin House of Representatives was forced on October 28, 1954 to express suspicion and vote out Conrad. A corresponding proposal by the SPD parliamentary group was accepted with 75 votes and 35 abstentions. Conrad had refused to renew the license of the Jewish pharmacist Brandt for the Utrecht pharmacy in the Wedding district . Instead, the pharmacy came into the hands of a former National Socialist. All attempts by the Jewish pharmacist, who suffered badly from the persecution of the Nazi regime - ten of his relatives were murdered - to regain a pharmacy license were thwarted by the FDP senator. When the residents of the Wedding district finally collected signatures in the interests of the pharmacist, the SPD parliamentary group was forced to raise the matter in the House of Representatives. On October 29, 1954, Conrad then resigned his mandate as a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and also resigned from the FDP. At the beginning of November 1954, Interior Senator Hermann Fischer was elected as his successor as Mayor and the former Senator for Post and Telecommunications, Hugo Holthöfer, as his successor as Health Senator .

tomb

He is buried in the Evangelical Churchyard Nikolassee .

Book publications

  • Church fight , Wedding-Verlag, Berlin 1947.
  • Politics is passion. Liberalism on the attack , Echo Verlag, Berlin 1950.
  • The fight for the pulpits. Memories and documents from the Hitler era , Verlag Töpelmann, Berlin 1957.

literature

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Times of November 12, 1947.
  2. ^ New Germany of October 29, 1954.
  3. ^ New Times of October 30, 1954.
  4. ^ New Times of November 2, 1954.
  5. ^ New Times of November 6, 1954.
personal data
SURNAME Conrad, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Barby
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1970
Place of death West Berlin