Walter Möller (politician, 1912)

Walter Möller (born January 2, 1912 in Elgersburg , Thuringia , † October 1, 1992 in Hamburg ) was a German communist politician and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

Möller, the son of a glass blower, joined the communist children's movement at the age of nine. In 1926 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). He learned the trade of technical businessman. Möller was Polleiter of the KJVD in Arnstadt and belonged to the KJVD district management Thuringia . As a supporter of the Brandler opposition, he was expelled in August 1929 because of "legal deviations". From December 1929 he was a member of the Communist Youth Opposition (KJO). Möller also became a member of the Communist Party Opposition (KPO) in Elgersburg . From 1931 he was a member of the Reich leadership of the KJO in Berlin . There he worked in the KPO near Junius-Verlag as a shipping clerk .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Möller continued to be politically illegal and was briefly imprisoned. Möller first emigrated to Switzerland , then went to Prague in the summer of 1933 and finally to the Soviet Union at the end of 1933 , where his parents had lived as skilled workers since 1931. Möller was re-admitted to the KJVD in Moscow and was a member of the Komsomol from 1934 , from which he was excluded in 1936. Möller worked in the mechanical colliery "Lamo", from 1937 in a printing works in Engels . After his father Otto Möller was arrested and shot by the NKVD in 1937 , Walter Möller was expelled from the Soviet Union. Already arrested in Tilsit , Möller refused propaganda work against the Soviet Union and was thereupon sentenced to one and a half years in prison. From 1939 he worked in a glass factory in Ilmenau , but moved to Hamburg in 1940. There he worked illegally for the KPD at the German shipyard.

After the end of the Second World War , Möller worked as an employee from 1945 to 1947. He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1945 and worked full-time for it from 1947 to 1950. Until 1950 he was a member of the secretariat of the KPD regional leadership in Hamburg. From June 1947 to January 1950 Möller was a member of the Hamburg Parliament.

In connection with the campaigns against "Titoists" Möller, as head of the state politics department, and Harry Naujoks , deputy state chairman, were removed from the Hamburg leadership of the KPD in January 1950 because of alleged factional activity. Möller received a "reprimand" and was banned from working for one year. Later quietly rehabilitated, he worked again as an employee.

In 1968 Möller joined the German Communist Party (DKP). For many years he was deputy chairman of the Central Revision Commission of the DKP and from 1975 to 1987 he headed the board of trustees of the "Ernst Thälmann Memorial" in Hamburg.

literature

• Reinhard Müller : Herbert Wehner - Moscow 1937 . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-930908-82-4 , p. 271.
• Möller, Walter . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Günter Benser: German communism. Self-image and reality . Volume 4: A new beginning with no final consequence (1945/1946) . Dietz, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-320-02150-4 , p. 291.