Walther Böttcher

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Walther Böttcher (born April 1, 1901 in Lübeck ; † March 26, 1983 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1954 to 1959 he was President of the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein.

Life and work

After high school at a secondary school Böttcher studied law and political science at the University of Hamburg and the Georg-August University of Goettingen . He finished his studies with the first state examination in law . In 1927 he was at the University of Göttingen with the work "The legal status of the ambulatory business enterprise" Dr. jur. PhD . After his legal clerkship , Böttcher also passed the second state examination and then worked as a lawyer and notary in Lübeck. In 1948 he represented defense contractor Bernhard Berghaus in its denazification proceedings . From 1956 to 1960 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Handelsbank in Lübeck, 1959-60 also of the ship mortgage bank in Lübeck.

Böttcher was a Protestant , married and had four children.

politics

In 1946 Böttcher was one of the founders of the Lübeck CDU district association. He was also chairman of the district association from 1946 to 1957 and was appointed honorary chairman in 1957.

From 1946 to 1951 he belonged to the citizenship of the city of Lübeck and was also chairman of the CDU parliamentary group there. From 1955 to 1956, Böttcher was mayor of Lübeck. From 1947 to 1962 Böttcher was a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein . There he was from August 7, 1950 to August 6, 1954 first vice-president and from October 11, 1954 to September 16, 1959 President of the state parliament. In addition, from 1954 to 1958 he was chairman of the state parliament committee for safeguarding the rights of parliament.

Walther Böttcher has always entered the state parliament as a directly elected member of the Lübeck-Süd constituency . He was also a member of the federal assemblies in 1949 and 1954. He was mayor of Lübeck from 1956 to 1959 . On January 30, 1959, Walther Böttcher was awarded the Grand Cross of the Federal Cross of Merit.

literature

  • Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 44 ff

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Schneider: Lübeck's banking policy through the ages (1898-1978) , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1979, p. 211
personal data
SURNAME Böttcher, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1983
Place of death Lübeck