Walter Nitsche

This article deals with the politician Walter Nitsche. For other people see Walter Nitsch .

Walter Nitsche (born June 7, 1900 in Breslau ; † June 14, 1969 in Soltau ) was a Lower Saxony politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

From 1906 to 1918 Nitsche attended the Elisabeth-Gymnasium in Breslau. In October and November 1918 he briefly took part in the First World War as a recruit in the Replacement Field Artillery Regiment No. 6 . From February 18 to March 20, 1919 he was in the Upper Silesian Border Guard with Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 11 and from March 21, 1919 to March 31, 1920 with the Chappuis Freikorps and other Freikorps; as a result he received the Silesian Eagle II level. He completed a law and economics degree at the University of Wroclaw . After successfully passing the first state legal examination on November 3, 1923, he became a court trainee in Breslau in 1923, where he also received his doctorate in the same year. After the Great State Examination on November 9, 1927, he became a court assessor in Berlin that same year . From January 1 to August 31, 1931 he was a court assessor at the regional court in Breslau . From September 1, 1931 to September 8, 1939 he was then district judge and judge at the district court in Breslau.

Politically, Nitsche was a member of the DNVP until 1927 . In addition, since June 1, 1920, he was a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund (membership no. 92.351). On November 3, 1933, he joined the SA , in which he reached the rank of squad leader. In 1934 he was in the NSV (membership no. 830.489). From 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the Nazi legal guardian association (membership no. 10.456). He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 ( membership number 5,592,393).

Nitsche completed annual military exercises lasting approximately one month from 1935 to 1939. From 1939 to 1945 he was a war participant in World War II and most recently held the rank of captain of the reserve; he received the War Merit Cross II. Class and the Iron Cross II. Class. After being a prisoner of war from May 22 to September 6, 1945, he lived as a war expellee in Münster . From September 1945 he worked as an independent advisory economist in Munsterlager robbery.

On October 5, 1948, Nitsche was denazified as exonerated in Category V by the main denazification committee of the Lüneburg district.

Nitsche became a member of the SPD in 1946. At the local political level, he was often active in the municipality and district. Since 1952 he became a member of the district council. He was elected for the first time in the third electoral term as a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from September 29, 1955 to May 5, 1959. He was re-elected in the fourth electoral term from February 26, 1960 to May 5, 1963 and the fifth electoral term from November 18, 1963 to June 5, 1967. Nitsche was chairman of the electoral review committee from October 4, 1961 to May 5, 1963.

literature

• Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hannover 2012, p. 187f ( online as PDF) .
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 273.