Walter Picht

Walter Picht ( May 12, 1900 - March 9, 1962 ) was a German judge and public prosecutor.

Life

He worked as a laborer, accountant and office worker. In 1933 he was released and briefly imprisoned in the Sonnenburg concentration camp . From 1940 to 1945 he did his military service in the Navy.

In May 1945 he was appointed judge at the court in Stralsund by the incumbent Soviet military commander Cherkassov , and from January to September 1946 he was attorney general in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . From June 1948 to May 1953 he worked as a legal advisor in Stralsund. In May 1953 he moved from the GDR to West Germany .

Walter Picht was a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) from 1918 to 1921 , and of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1925 until the party was banned in 1933 . In 1945 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) from 1946 to 1953 after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD .

literature

• Detlev Brunner: Stralsund. A city undergoing system change from the end of the German Empire to the 1960s , publications on SBZ / GDR research in the Institute for Contemporary History Oldenbourg, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59805-6