Walter Loeffler

Walter Löffler (born May 24, 1900 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , † April 29, 1967 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( USPD , SPD ).

Walter Löffler attended an elementary school and an advanced training school. He did an apprenticeship as a lathe operator and still had to do military service in 1918. After the First World War , he joined the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV) in December 1918 and the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) the following year . In 1920 he switched to the SPD and in 1928, thanks to a scholarship from the city of Berlin , he was able to attend the State College for Business and Administration. A year later, Löffler was elected to the district assembly in the Prenzlauer Berg district and from 1930 onwards was also an employee of this district office.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Löffler was dismissed for political reasons in June 1933. In the Prenzlauer Berg district office he had apparently come into contact with Kurt Megelin from the Red Assault Troop beforehand . In 1933 Löffler acted as the courier of the resistance group to Prague and also distributed the illegal newspaper of the same name, although he criticized its comparatively large format. He was arrested on November 24, 1934, but released soon afterwards. Another arrest took place on May 16, 1935. Löffler spent pre-trial detention in Berlin-Moabit. In September 1936 he was sentenced to seven years in prison by the People's Court in the proceedings against Alfred Markwitz and others for “preparation for high treason”, which he had to serve in the Brandenburg prison. He was released from prison in May 1942 and then worked as a machine setter . Since he and his family were bombed out six months later in Berlin, they moved to Rietz near Treuenbrietzen .

After the Second World War , Löffler was first mayor of Rietz, but returned to Berlin at the end of 1946, where he again worked in the Prenzlauer Berg district office. At the same time, he tried to rebuild the SPD in the Zauch-Belzig district . From 1948 he worked in the main office for victims of fascism at the magistrate of Berlin , later at the Senate Department for Social Affairs in the department for those persecuted politically, racially or religiously. In the Berlin election in 1954 , he was elected to the district assembly in the Charlottenburg district. Since Klaus-Peter Schulz became a member of the Bundestag, Löffler moved to the Berlin House of Representatives in October 1965 . He died just six weeks after the legislative term ended .

literature

• Dennis Egginger-Gonzalez: The Red Assault Troop. An early left-wing socialist resistance group against National Socialism. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3867322744 , including short biography on p. 454f.
• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 244.