Walter Weidauer

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Walter Weidauer (center) and Rudi Jahn (in the foreground) in 1958

Walter Weidauer (born July 28, 1899 in Lauter / Sa. , † March 13, 1986 in Dresden ) was a German politician ( KPD , later SED ). Weidauer was best known as the long-time Lord Mayor of Dresden.

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Walter Weidauer was born in 1899 as the son of a basket maker. He attended elementary school in Lauter. Then he learned the carpentry trade. Weidauer completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter from 1914 to 1917. In 1916 he joined the proletarian youth movement. In 1920 he became a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), which he left at the end of 1921. In early 1922 he switched to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

Walter Weidauer's grave in the Dresden Heidefriedhof .

Weidauer was a city councilor for the KPD in Zwickau from 1924 to 1928 . In July 1932, Weidauer was sent by his party as a proposal for a Reich election to the Reichstag, to which he was de facto until March 1933. Although his Reichstag mandate was confirmed in the Reichstag elections of March 1933, he was no longer able to exercise it due to the persecution of the Communists by the National Socialists that began at that time. After he had been arrested repeatedly between 1933 and 1935, Weidauer emigrated to Prague in 1935 . He later settled in Denmark . There he was arrested again in 1941 and extradited to Germany .

After the war, Weidauer rejoined the KPD. After the founding of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) he became a member of it. Weidauer was Lord Mayor of Dresden from 1946 to 1958 . He was also a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1946 to 1951 . From 1958 to 1961 he finally held the office of chairman of the district council for the Dresden district. Weidauer wrote the following sentence: “Socialist Dresden needs neither churches nor baroque facades.” Weidauer is an honorary citizen of the city of Dresden . On the occasion of the 90th birthday (1989) of the former Lord Mayor of Dresden, the Rathausplatz in Dresden was renamed Walter-Weidauer-Platz , but renamed it back in 1990.

Inge Taubert, a Marx researcher, was a daughter of Walter Weidauer .

Fonts

  • 1946, the first year of the great Dresden development plan , City Council, News Office, Dresden 1946.
  • The realization of the great Dresden development plan for the year 1946. As of d. Work after the first six months , Ratsdruckerei, Dresden 1946.
  • Problems of new construction and reconstruction , Berlin 1947.
  • New ways of local politics , Voco, Dresden 1948.
  • Social life in the modern city , Dresden 1955.
  • Inferno Dresden - About lies and legends about the “Donnerschlag” campaign , Dietz, Berlin 1965, 8th edition Dietz, Berlin 1990. ISBN 3-320-00818-8 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Walter Weidauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Astrid Pawassar: Dresdens Weg: As then, only more beautiful. In: The Parliament. Issue 17/18 from April 16, 2007.
predecessor Office successor
Gustav Leissner Mayor of Dresden
1946 - 1958 		Herbert Good
personal data
SURNAME Weidauer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, SED), MdR, MdV, Lord Mayor of Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Louder / Sa.
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1986
Place of death Dresden