Walter Schröder (politician)

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Walter Karl Wilhelm Schröder (born May 14, 1907 in Stettin ; † after 1987) was a German politician ( SED ). From 1954 to 1971 he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED .

Life

Schröder, the son of a working-class family, learned the trade of shipbuilding and mechanical engineering after attending primary school. It was already organized as a union in the Weimar Republic . He attended the State Engineering School in Szczecin and from 1937 worked as an engineer and designer at a shipyard in Szczecin. During the Second World War he had to do military service in the Navy .

After the war he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1945 . In 1946, Schröder was involved in the unification of the KPD and SPD to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the district of Anklam . From 1947 he had a responsible position in the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB) in the Anklam district and from 1949 he was head of the MAS specialty workshop in Anklam and director of the VEB agricultural technical repair shop in Anklam for more than twenty-five years . As the initiator of the "Thousands Movement" of tractors in agriculture, he was named "Hero of Work" by Wilhelm Pieck on October 13, 1951 .

After the administrative reform and the formation of districts in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the summer of 1952, he became a member of the Neubrandenburg district assembly . On July 30, 1952, he was elected member of the district council at the constitution of the Neubrandenburg district assembly. At the 4th SED party congress in April 1954, he was elected a member of the SED Central Committee and held this position until the 8th party congress in June 1971.

Schröder last lived in Anklam.

Awards

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (ed.): SBZ-Biographie , Bonn / Berlin 1964, p. 315.
  • Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 255.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Heroes of Work 1951" . In: Neue Zeit , October 17, 1951, p. 2.
  2. ^ Neubrandenburg District Assembly constituted . In: Neues Deutschland , July 31, 1952, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Central Committee of the SED congratulates . In: Neues Deutschland, May 14, 1987, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schröder, Walter Karl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH after 1987