Walter Franke (politician, 1926)

Walter Franke (born November 20, 1926 in Bleckenstedt ; † November 1, 2015 ) was a Bremen politician ( SPD ). He was Bremen Senator and Mayor of Bremen .

biography

education and profession

Franke was the son of a school principal. After high school in Braunschweig, before and after the Second World War, he studied law and political science at the University of Göttingen and the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer . He served in World War II from 1944 , was seriously wounded and released from captivity in 1947. In 1951 he completed his studies and received his doctorate in 1955 in Göttingen as a Dr. jur.

In 1956 he worked in the judicial service and from 1957 to 1960 he was head of the legal department at the DGB in Bremen. At the same time he was a lecturer at the union schools. From 1960 to 1965 he was managing director and legal advisor of the Bremen Chamber of Labor . After 1971 Franke gave lectures as an associate professor at the University of Bremen .

After serving as a senator, he returned to the Bremen Chamber of Labor from 1979 to 1985 . The visit of the Polish Solidarność delegation to Bremen in 1981, which the Chamber of Labor had prepared on the basis of Franke's contacts with Lech Wałęsa , became known. Due to the state of emergency declared in Poland at this time , the delegation members had to remain in Bremen.

Franke was married and had two sons. He lived in Bremen-Horn-Lehe .

politics

Franke joined the NSDAP in 1944 . After the war he became a member of the SPD. From 1963 to 1975 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship and various deputations (justice, science, economy). At the beginning of 1971 the SPD parliamentary group elected him as deputy chairman of the parliamentary group and at the end of 1971 as the successor to Gustav Böhrnsen . In 1975 he was appointed to the Bremen Senate as successor to Annemarie Mevissen and until 1979 was Deputy President of the Senate, Mayor and Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Youth and Sport in the 3rd cabinet of Hans Koschnick . In 1979, Franke was to become Senator for Economics and Labor in the 4th Senate of Koschnick. In agreement with his trade union and the Chamber of Labor, he did not agree to this combination of offices and renounced further membership in the Senate.

Other offices

Franke was state chairman and member of the Federal Presidium until 1999 and from 1990 to 1996 national chairman of the Reich Association of War Victims, Disabled People, Social Pensioners and Survivors (from 1999 Social Association Germany ).
From 1990 to autumn 1997 he represented the Reichsbund as federal chairman. During his term of office, the Eleventh Book of the Social Code - Social Care Insurance - (SGB XI) was passed, which was also a success of the constant efforts of the Social Association Reichsbund to improve social security for those in need of care. The inclusion of the prohibition of discrimination against disabled people in the Basic Law must also be considered a great success for the Reichsbund.
From 1991 to 2001 he was Honorary Consul for Morocco in Bremen.
Chairman of the German-Arab Society in Bremen in the 1990s.

Fonts

Federal Social Welfare Act with ordinances, publisher: Reichsbund, 1994

swell

Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of members of the Bremen citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .
Bremische Bürgerschaft (Hrsg.), Karl-Ludwig Sommer: The Nazi past of former members of the Bremische Bürgerschaft. Project study and scientific colloquium (= small writings of the Bremen State Archives. Issue 50). State Archive Bremen, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-925729-72-0 .
Bremen Citizenship Handbook
Weser Kurier: Walter Franke died , report from November 8, 2015, p. 12.

Web links

Literature by and about Walter Franke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Obituary in the Weser Courier. [1]
↑ Helmut Violence: List of NSDAP membership of post-war MPs of the Bremen Citizenship ( Memento of August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 73 kB), Willi-Bredel-Gesellschaft May 12, 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Franke, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Bremen Mayor and Senator
DATE OF BIRTH	November 20, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bleckenstedt
DATE OF DEATH	November 1, 2015

[1] Obituary in the Weser Courier. [1]

[2] Helmut Violence: List of NSDAP membership of post-war MPs of the Bremen Citizenship ( Memento of August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 73 kB), Willi-Bredel-Gesellschaft May 12, 2011.