Walter Werner (politician)

Walter Werner (born August 7, 1912 in Glogau / Silesia ; † March 20, 1998 in Gronau (Westphalia) ) was a German politician and from 1956 to 1958 a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament .

Life and work

Walter Werner grew up in the orphanage and attended elementary school. This was followed by training as a gardener . He then served in the Wehrmacht and later served in the Soviet Union. He got into British captivity, some of which he experienced in North Africa. After his release he settled in Epe (Westphalia) , Ahaus district (now Gronau, Borken district ). Walter Werner works in the textile industry in West Munster in the first post-war years.

On March 20, 1998, Walter Werner succumbed to cancer in Gronau (Westphalia) after a short, serious illness . Together with his wife Lidwina, he and his wife Lidwina had ordered the burial of his remains in the anonymous urn field of the crematorium in neighboring Enschede in the Netherlands.

politics

Walter Werner joined the SPD in 1947 and was initially active with the Young Socialists and the " Falcons ". Walter Werner was also involved early on in the textile clothing union . He was a member of the council of the municipality of Epe (Westphalia) without interruption from October 17, 1948 until the local elections on May 4, 1975. In addition, Walter Werner held the mandate as a member of the Ahaus district council from 1948 until the local election on March 19, 1961. In the elections to the 3rd state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia on June 27, 1954, Walter Werner ran for a direct mandate in constituency 79 (Ahaus) without a chance. Franz Berding (CDU) received the direct mandate with almost four times as many votes. Nevertheless, two years later Walter Werner was able to move up to 40th place on the state reserve list of his party on December 20, 1956 in the current 3rd electoral period of the state parliament. He succeeded the late Heinrich Bruckhoff (1892–1956). From February 1957 to May 1958 he was a member of the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Forestry .

The subsequent fourth ballot in North Rhine-Westphalia on July 6, 1958 gave the CDU an absolute majority of the seats and the SPD list position 55 was not enough for Walter Werner to move into the state parliament. He did not run for the 5th state election in 1962. After the NRW local elections on May 4, 1975, Walter Werner finally retired from active politics. As a simple member of his party, he continued to participate in the political process. On March 15, 1995, he handed over his estate to the Archive of Social Democracy (AdsD) of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn.

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• Archive of the Social Democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn: Deposit of the SPD local association Gronau and Epe. Walter Werner estate.
• Borken district archive: documents from the members of the Ahaus and Borken district councils.
• State Parliament Archive Düsseldorf: Biographical compendium for the member of the State Parliament Walter Werner (inventory A 02 08/863).
• City of Gronau (Westf.): Files of council member Walter Werner.
• SPD documents for the Ebert Foundation: contemporary historical material should be preserved in the archive for posterity, Westfälische Nachrichten v. March 16, 1995.
• Obituary of the SPD for the member of the state parliament a. D. Walter Werner, Westfälische Nachrichten v. March 24, 1998.
• SPD member of the state parliament a. D. Walter Werner died in Epe: A Social Democrat from Silesia also worked in the Eper Council, Westfälische Nachrichten v. March 24, 1998.
• Loos, Helmut; Wiegand, Stefanie: Walter Werner MdL: SPD member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1956 to 1958. In: Yearbook of the district of Borken 2009, pp. 16-20.

Web links

• Walter Werner at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia