Walter Geiger

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Walter Geiger (born October 19, 1901 in Bensheim ; † November 19, 1995 ) was a German politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and a member of the Advisory State Committee for Greater Hesse .

Walter Geiger was the son of a secret school council and director of the teachers' college in Bensheim. After graduating from Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium , Walter Geiger studied economics and graduated with a degree in economics. After graduating, he worked as an editor for the Mainzer newspaper Der Katholik . Politically, he belonged to the Center Party of Hesse from 1920 to 1927 , but resigned there because he did not agree with the center's cultural policy. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the newspaper had to be adjusted and Walter Geiger moved to Bergsträßer advertiser but was released there soon as "politically unreliable". June to September 1940 he was for violating the treachery law in custody . After his sentencing on November 22, 1940 to six months in prison, he did not have to serve the sentence, but served as a soldier on the Eastern Front until the end of the war.

After the Second World War he was one of the founding members of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which on December 11, 1948 in Heppenheim became the Free Democratic Party (FDP) of Hesse. He became the first district chairman of the LDP in Bensheim. As a representative of the LDP, he was appointed by the American military government to the "Advisory State Committee" of Greater Hesse, the predecessor of the Constitutional Advisory State Assembly , to which he was a member from February 26 to July 14, 1946. After the LDP did poorly in the local elections in Hesse in 1946 in Bensheim, he was held responsible for the election result and resigned from the party. For the local elections of October 23, 1960, he ran with his own "Geiger list". Since he missed the 5% clause with 490 votes, the violinist, who could be classified as a liberal in the broadest sense, had to continue his political activity outside of parliament and among other things he was the editor of the small newspaper "Bensheimer Stadtblatt - Mahnruf ans Deutsche Volk" (1949–1992) .

literature

  • "... going towards democracy" - The minutes of the meeting of the Advisory State Committee of Greater Hesse in 1946 - A documentation. edited by Bernhard Parisius and Jutta Scholl-Seibert, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-930221-05-5 , p. 36.
  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 260 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 141.
  • Franz Josef Schäfer: Walter Geiger - A principled democrat from Bensheim. In: Mitteilungen Museumsverein Bensheim eV, No. 56/2007, pp. 8–61.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Lengemann states economics as a subject, Parisius / Scholl-Seibert write that he studied law in Freiburg, Frankfurt, Göttingen, Gießen and Heidelberg
personal data
SURNAME Geiger, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensheim
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1995