Walter Schütz (politician, around 1880)

Walter Schütz (* 1884 in Langwethen ; † January 23, 1945 in Düsseldorf ) was a German politician (DVP).

His parents were Alfred and Louise Schütz, who had four children in total.

Walter Schütz has been involved in the German People's Party (DVP) since 1919 , of which he was head of the Reich office in the early years of the Weimar Republic. He then became general secretary of the state association of the party in Westphalia-South.

After the death of Gustav Stresemann in 1929, Schütz and the chairman of the state association Westphalia-South Otto Hembeck developed into two of the most important leaders of the party opposition to the course of the new leadership of the party under Stresemann's successor Eduard Dingeldey . In February 1932, Schütz and Hembeck finally left the DVP and joined the DNVP .

After 1933, Schütz was close to the group around Edgar Jung, who were in opposition to National Socialism .

On January 23, 1945, Walter Schütz died of a ruptured lung in an air raid shelter in Düsseldorf.

literature

• Edmund Forschbach : Edgar Jung. A conservative revolutionary , Pfullingen 1984.
• Ludwig Richter: The German People's Party 1918-1933 , Düsseldorf 2002.