Walter Fliess

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Walter Gustav Fließ (born June 21, 1867 in Berlin , † after 1924) was a German physician and politician. In 1920 he was elected to the Hamburg parliament for the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) , of which he was a member of the parliamentary group of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1921 until 1924.

Life

Fliess trained as a pharmacist, studied medicine in the United States and was appointed professor by the Science of Rochester in New Jersey . After working as a scientist in London , Paris and Copenhagen , he returned to Berlin in 1893 and worked for three years as assistant to the naturopath Martin Glünicke and manager (administrator) of his sanatorium for epileptics in Bohnsdorf near Grünau.

In 1896 Fliess founded a sanatorium in Hamburg . At an unknown point in time, Fliess had become a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), but switched to the USPD in 1917 and was elected member of the Hamburg Parliament in 1920. In 1921 he became a member of the KPD and was a member of the parliament until 1924. After the end of the legislative period in 1924, Fliess left the citizenry and resigned from the KPD. He no longer emerged politically.

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Individual evidence

  1. Marriage register Berlin V a, 1891, entry no.447