Walter Kühlthau

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Walter Friedrich Kühlthau (born August 16, 1906 in Essen , † November 27, 1978 in Wuppertal ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Walter Kühlthau was the son of a master butcher . After graduating from secondary school , Kühlthau, who was a Protestant , completed an apprenticeship from 1922 to 1924 and then worked for two years as an employee at the Essen Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK). From 1926 to 1930 he was office manager at the Institute for Economic Research in Essen . He then went back to the Essen Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was initially head of the library, archive and statistics department, and later as a clerk for foreign exchange issues. After he had obtained the Administration Academy diploma at the Administration Academy in Essen in 1937, he became office manager in the Chamber of Commerce in 1938. In 1942 he took over the department for foreign exchange and foreign trade issues. In the same year he passed a gifted test that entitles him to study economics even without a high school diploma .

After the Second World War , Kühlthau was managing director of the IHK branch in Oberhausen from 1946 to 1953 . In 1949 he took up a part-time study of economics in Münster in Westphalia , but did not complete it. In 1955, Kühlthau was awarded a higher administrative service and in the same year he was appointed city treasurer of Wuppertal. He held this office until 1958. From 1956 he was a lecturer at the Administration and Business Academy in Wuppertal and from 1958 he was the commercial director of Wuppertaler Stadtwerke AG .

Kühlthau was elected President of Wuppertaler SV (WSV) in 1961, and he held this position until 1968.

The Walter-Kühlthau-Weg is named after Kühlthau on May 21, 1991 in Wuppertal.

politics

Walter Kühlthau joined the CDU in 1946. He was a member of the district executive committee in Oberhausen and later in Wuppertal . He was a member of the CDU's Federal Public Service Committee. From 1966 onwards he was chairman of the committee for local economy of the CDU / CSU.

From 1948 to 1955, Kühlthau was a member of the Oberhausen city ​​council and had been deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group there since 1950. From 1952 to 1955 he was mayor of Oberhausen .

Walter Kühlthau was directly elected member of the state parliament of the 2nd state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia for the constituency of Oberhausen-Süd from July 5, 1950 to July 4, 1954 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1961, where he represented the Essen I constituency. From 1957 to 1961 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Home Affairs. From July 25, 1966 to May 27, 1975 he was again a member of the 6th and 7th state parliaments of North Rhine-Westphalia , in which he entered via the state list.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Essen heads - who was what? Richard Bracht Verlag, Essen 1985, ISBN 3-87034-037-1 .
  2. ^ Previous club presidents , accessed January 2013.
  3. ↑ Peter Keller, Otto Krschak: 50 years of Wuppertaler SV. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3-89702-602-3 .
  4. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Kühlthau, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kühlthau, Walter Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1978
Place of death Wuppertal