Walter Zappe

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Walter Zappe , also Fritz Zappe (born June 5, 1905 in Schweidnitz , † December 20, 1980 in Lübeck ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life

Zappe had been active in health insurance in Silesia since 1922 and came to the guild health insurance fund in Lübeck via Berlin in 1937. In Silesia he was already politically active as the city councilor of today's Wałbrzych . As a member of the SPD and trade unionist (ÖTV) he became politically active at the state level and in local politics after the Second World War. He was a member of the first appointed state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein from February 26, 1946 to November 11, 1946. Zappe was a member of Lübeck's citizenship from November 1946 and an honorary senator from 1948. He joined the Schleswig-Holstein State Insurance Institute in 1947 and became its director in 1954. In 1955 he was re-elected to the Lübeck citizenship and remained a member and honorary senator of the city until his retirement in 1970.

Awards

  • Honor plaque of the Senate
  • Freiherr vom Stein Memorial Medal
  • Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (October 2, 1972)

literature

  • Franz Osterroth: 100 years of social democracy in Schleswig-Holstein: a historical overview , Verlag Landesverband Schleswig-Holstein der SPD, 1963
  • Jessica von Seggern: Old and New Democrats in Schleswig-Holstein. Democratization and new formation of a political elite at district and state level 1945 to 1950 (historical communications, supplements, vol. 61), Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08801-6
  • Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918–2007. (= Publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume 46 of series B). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2008, No. 1073 pp. 258/259 ISBN 978-3-7950-0488-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Sinner (lit.) and the Lübeck archive documents
  2. ↑ Hans-Holger Paul: Inventory of the legacies of the German labor movement: for the ten West German states and West Berlin , Archive of Social Democracy Bonn ', Walter de Gruyter, 1993, p. 467 ( Osteroth estate )
  3. ↑ SPD member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament since 1946. Retrieved on July 6, 2011 .
  4. ^ Walter Zappe in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein. Retrieved June 6, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Zappe, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zappe, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweidnitz
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 1980
Place of death Lübeck