Walter E. Lellek

Walter E. Lellek (1978)

Candidate poster for the state elections in Lower Saxony in 1982

Walter E. Lellek (born March 11, 1924 in Katowice , Upper Silesia , † February 6, 1998 in Wolfsburg ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

After Walter Lellek had passed the school leaving examination at the Charlottenburger Gymnasium in Berlin, he studied political science, law and economics at the Hochschule für Politik and the Free University of Berlin from 1950 to 1954. He completed his studies with a degree in political science (Dipl. Sc. Pol.). He then completed a postgraduate course at the University of Cambridge in Great Britain. For some time he worked for the Senator for the Interior in Berlin, later at the Volkswagen factory. There he started a traineeship in 1954 and later worked in export and in the advertising department. From 1963 he headed the foreign language center for Volkswagen AG .

Walter Lellek joined the CDU in 1953. As a student he already worked as chairman of a university group of the RCDS , later he became district chairman of the Junge Union in Wolfsburg (1954–1964) and also its deputy district chairman. In the years 1969–1973 he was also district chairman of the CDU Wolfsburg and until 1974 a member of the district executive committee. He also worked as a member of the district committee for the Lüneburg district association of the CDU. In several committees of the council of the city of Wolfsburg Lellek was engaged as a citizen representative from 1961 to 1972, from 1972 to 1976 he was a member of the Wolfsburg council. From June 21, 1970 to June 20, 1990 Walter Lellek was a directly elected member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (7th to 11th electoral term).

He was married and has three children. His father was the architect Josef M. Lellek .

Public offices

Walter Lellek was a member of many associations, commissions and organizations, for example he was a member of the committee for national minority law and emigrant issues of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, member of the Silesian regional assembly, member of the advisory board for adult education of the Oskar Kämmer School , non-profit school society mbH in Braunschweig, Member of the board of the Silesian Foundation and chairman of the board of the youth education organization for Europe eV in Hanover. From 1974 to 1978 he was also a member of the association assembly of the Greater Braunschweig Association . As chairman of the "Supporting Association of the State Museum of Silesia", he did essential preparatory work for today's Silesian Museum in Görlitz .

literature

• 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. 233.