Walter Gorges

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Walter Gorges (born January 12, 1922 in Damscheid , † August 20, 1971 in San Pedro Pescador , Spain ) was a German post office worker and politician of the SPD . From 1963 to 1967 and again in 1971 he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament .

Life

Gorges attended elementary and middle school as well as the humanistic high school, which he left with the Abitur. In 1939 he began as a civil servant in the preparatory service. As early as 1941 he was made an unscheduled postal inspector, but was soon drafted into military service and was held in American and French captivity .

In 1946 Gorges returned to his homeland and his job, he now acted as the head of department representative at various post offices and as a personnel clerk at the Oberpostdirektion Koblenz and at the Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications . In 1955 he was appointed head of the post office in Simmern , until 1967 he was promoted to post office manager.

In 1971 Gorges was elected chairman of the regional civil servants' committee of the DGB Rhineland-Palatinate . In the Deutsche Postgewerkschaft he was a member of the trade union committee and the executive district executive in Koblenz. He also acted as an honorary judge at the Rhineland-Palatinate Finance Court in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse .

politics

Gorges joined the NSDAP in 1940 . In 1956 he became a member of the SPD, a year later he took over the chairmanship of the Simmern local association. There he was a member of the city council, was elected second in 1960 and first in 1964. In 1961 he took over the chairmanship of the SPD in the Simmern district , after the district reform in the Rhein-Hunsrück district . He held the chairmanship of the district assembly and was appointed second district deputy of the Rhein-Hunsrück district in 1969. In 1965 he rose to become chairman of the SPD sub-district Rhine - Hunsrück - Mosel .

In 1963 Gorges was elected to the Mainz state parliament for the first time . There he was a member of the legal committee and acted as secretary. After the 1967 election, he left parliament. In 1971 he moved back into parliament, which he belonged to until his death three months later. His successor was Willi Erkel .

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Advisory State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 , 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , p. 230.

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personal data
SURNAME Gorges, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL Rhineland-Palatinate
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Damscheid
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1971
Place of death Sant Pere Pescador , Spain