Walter Frank (politician)

Walter Frank (born July 27, 1895 in Schwedt / Oder ; †  January 20, 1971 in Bochum ) was a German craftsman (lathe operator) and politician (KPD).

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Walter Frank attended the boys' bourgeois school in Schwedt. Then he learned the lathe trade. From 1913 Frank was organized in the German Metalworkers' Union, from which he was expelled in 1929 for organizing strikes.

From 1911 Frank belonged to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1919 he switched to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), for which he then took over functional activities. Among other things, he became secretary of the federal leadership of the Red Front Fighters League . In January 1928 he became a city councilor in Bochum for his party . In September 1930, Frank was elected to the Reichstag for the KPD , to which he belonged until March 1932. In the Reichstag, he successively represented constituencies 18 (North Westphalia), 22 (Düsseldorf East) and 23 (Düsseldorf West). In parliament, Frank was a member of the youth committee.

During the Nazi era, Walter Frank was held in concentration camps from 1933 to 1935 and from 1936 to 1945 . In the 1949 federal election he ran unsuccessfully for the KPD in the Ennepe-Ruhr - Witten constituency , but otherwise did not stand out.

literature

• Frank, Walter . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• Walter Frank in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Weber: Die Wandlung des Deutschen Kommunismus , 1969, p. 333. Frank also stated to Weber that he had worked constructively in the committee and had not practiced any obstruction.