Walter Gläsner

Walter Gläsner (born February 26, 1923 in Merzig ; † October 28, 2008 in Düsseldorf ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Gläsner attended elementary school and continued his education with a boarding course at the distance learning institute "Die Briefschule". He completed an apprenticeship and then worked as a skilled worker in the ceramic industry. From 1941 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . After the end of the war, he worked in the chemical-paper-ceramic union, from 1947 to 1953 as chairman of the works council and then as managing director of the union branch in Neuwied . In the 1970s he was district manager of the IG Chemie-Papier-Keramik Nordrhein.

Gläsner joined the SPD in 1950. From 1955 he was chairman of the SPD local association Höhr-Grenzhausen, from 1958 chairman of the SPD district association Unterwesterwald and also a member of the Rhineland / Hessen-Nassau district committee. From 1953 he was a member of the city council in Höhr-Grenzhausen and from 1960 a member of the district council and district committee of the Unterwesterwaldkreis .

From January 5, 1963, when he replaced the resigned MP Manfred Schumacher , until the end of the fourth legislative period in the spring of 1963, Gläsner was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament for a short time .

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , p. 226.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ trade unions. Trauma go . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1972, p. 31-32 ( Online - Feb. 28, 1972 ).
2. ↑ wages. Great pleasure . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1973, p. 28-29 ( Online - Mar. 5, 1973 ).