Walter Altherr

Walter Altherr on a federal election poster (1994)

Walter Franz Altherr (born July 11, 1946 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German doctor and politician ( CDU ).

Life

Walter Altherr attended elementary school in Ramstein and the Landstuhl grammar school, which he left early. He then did an electrical mechanic apprenticeship at Pfaff in Kaiserslautern. In 1969 he passed the Abitur on the second educational path at the Speyer College. He then studied medicine in Saarbrücken and Homburg and passed the state examination in 1975. He then worked as a research assistant at the Medical Faculty of Saarland University and was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . After training as a surgeon and trauma surgeon, he became a senior physician at the trauma surgery clinic. From 1986 to 1996 he was a senior physician at the hospitals in Saarbrücken and a specialist in surgery and trauma surgery.

Political career

Altherr joined the Junge Union in 1961 and the CDU in 1965. In 1986 he became a member of the Kaiserslautern-Land district board. In 1978 he took over the office of mayor of the community of Mittelbrunn , which he still holds today. In 1989 he moved into the Kaiserslautern district council . In the federal election in 1990 he was elected to the German Bundestag via the Rhineland-Palatinate state list , to which he was a member until 1994. Altherr was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1996 to 2006 . In the Bundestag election of 2002 , he narrowly missed the return to the Bundestag, in the Bundestag election of 2005, however, by a large margin.

In 2009, Altherr succeeded Peter Dincher as a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament and was a member of it until the end of the 2011 election period.

Honors

In 2001 Alther was honored with the Freiherr vom Stein plaque and in 2009 with the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon.

literature

• People's Handbook of the German Bundestag, 12th electoral period
• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , p 22-23.

Web links

Commons : Walter Franz Altherr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Gazette on the award of the Federal Cross of Merit to Walter Altherr (pdf)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The President of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate: The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 . Ed .: The President of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament. Springer VS, 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 22-23 .