Walter Ostendorff

Walter Ostendorff (born December 9, 1918 in Königsberg , East Prussia , †  August 4, 1989 in Bremen ) was a German politician ( FDP ).

biography

education and profession

Ostendorff completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked as an employee and businessman in Bremen.

politics

Ostendorff joined the FDP. From January 4, 1960 to 1983, he was a member of the Bremen citizenship for the FDP for 23 years . From 1971 to 1983 he was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group .

In 1984 Ostendorff was elected regional chairman of the FDP Bremen . At the end of 1984, the economic crime department of the Bremen public prosecutor's office investigated him and the former FDP parliamentary group leader Horst-Jürgen Lahmann on suspicion of breach of trust and fraud. Due to the “improper use” of parliamentary group funds in the years 1979 to 1983, penal orders of 23,000 DM each  were issued against Ostendorff and Lahmann in April 1986 . They were proven to have used tax money, which was intended for the work of the parliamentary group, illegally for the FDP. As a result, Ostendorff renounced another candidacy for the state chair in 1986 and was replaced in this function by Claus Jäger .

swell

• Bremische Bürgerschaft (Hrsg.), Karl-Ludwig Sommer: The Nazi past of former members of the Bremische Bürgerschaft. Project study and scientific colloquium (= small writings of the Bremen State Archives. Issue 50). State Archive Bremen, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-925729-72-0 .
• Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of members of the Bremen citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Always done that way . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1984, pp. 45-49 ( online ).
2. ↑ Unnecessary until the end . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1986, pp. 42-44 ( online ).