Walter Drews

Walter Drews (born May 13, 1917 in Bremen , † December 29, 2005 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Drews, who was of Roman Catholic faith , was one of the founders of the Kolping building cooperative in Hamburg, of which he had also been chairman of the board since 1961. He was a trained technical businessman. He did military service in World War II and was taken prisoner .

He was politically active in the CDU , for which he worked full-time as an organizational officer from 1946 after returning from captivity. In 1949 he was on the list of electoral alliance father Urban covenant Hamburg in the district committee Hamburg-Nord was elected, which he belonged to the 1,953th He then became the full-time managing director of the Hamburg block parliamentary group and later the CDU parliamentary group . In 1959 he was elected to the third Federal Assembly by the Hamburg Parliament, which elected Heinrich Lübke as Federal President . On March 14, 1965, he replaced the deceased Rolf Weise in the Hamburg parliament. After he had been re-elected in the 1966 mayor elections, he resigned his mandate and the position of parliamentary group manager on April 1, 1968, as he had become the head of the citizenry's input service. A position he held until he retired in 1982.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} " Walter Drews (CDU) died ", in Hamburger Abendblatt of January 9, 2006, page 14, accessed on February 25, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} "Often this man was the last hope" , in Hamburger Abendblatt of May 27, 1982, page 7, accessed on January 25, 2020.
3. ↑ "You elect the Federal President" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of May 26, 1959, accessed on September 5, 2018.