Walter Wüst (politician)

Walter Wüst (born October 15, 1896 in Willmenrod , Westerburg district , † November 15, 1965 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Walter Wüst was the son of a bricklayer and stonemason and attended elementary schools in Willmenrod and Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg . Like his father, he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and stonemason and joined the German Construction Workers' Association . He was drafted in the First World War . In 1918 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and switched to the SPD in 1922. Wuest studied from 1923 at the Academy of Labor at the University of Frankfurt economics . In 1928 he became an employee of the federal board of the German construction trade association. With the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933 he was initially dismissed, but in 1934 he was able to work again as a bricklayer and stone mason. From 1937 he became an employee of the Wehrmacht .

After the Second World War , Wüst became a managing board member of the Berlin construction and housing cooperative from 1892 in 1946 , and in the first Berlin election in 1946 he was also elected to the city ​​council of Greater Berlin . But three months later, Wüst was elected as a district councilor in the Wedding district. In the 1950 and 1954 elections , he was always elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, but left parliament after a few weeks because he was still a district councilor in Wedding. In 1961 he retired .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 284-285 (331 pages).