Walter Kaczmarczyk

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Walter Kaczmarczyk (born January 25, 1938 in Drozdowo ; † February 13, 2019 ) was a German politician without a party and from 1995 to 2006 a member of the Berlin House of Representatives .

Walter Kaczmarczyk's father was a Polish officer who was first arrested by the Soviets after the occupation of Poland and then transferred to the Germans, from whom he was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where he was killed. Walter Kaczmarczyk's mother helped persecuted Jewish people.

Walter Kaczmarczyk experienced the end of the war in bombed-out Berlin, already as a child occupied with ensuring the survival of his mother and himself in the rubble landscape.

Walter Kaczmarczyk trained as a photo salesman from 1953 to 1955. He then did police and army service until 1969, most recently for the border troops of the GDR . He passed his Abitur examination in 1966. He resigned from serving in the army after a fatal shot from the unit he led on a GDR refugee. He studied from 1969 to 1973 at the Berlin School of Economics , graduating with a degree in economics. He then worked as a research assistant at the university until 1991. In 1988 he was promoted to Dr. in 1988 on the development of sailing in Berlin until 1933, with special consideration of the development of worker sailing and its development until 1933. phil. PhD.

Kaczmarczyk was on the PDS list from 1990 to 1992 in the Treptow District Assembly . He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1995 in the constituency of Treptow 3 . He was particularly committed to sports policy issues.

After the fall of the Wall, Walter Kaczmarczyk was committed to maintaining the former restaurant "Schmetterlinghorst" in Berlin-Köpenick an der Dahme as a non-profit, community-friendly recreation center.

Walter Kaczmarczyk was an avid sailing enthusiast.

He died on February 13, 2019 at the age of 81.

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  • A. Holzapfel (Ed.): Berlin House of Representatives. 14th legislative term. Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Rheinbreitbach 2000, p. 41.