Walter Eckhardt

Politician

1906 – 1994

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Who was Walter Eckhardt?

Walter Eckhardt was a German politician, who represented the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights and subsequently the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. He was a member of the Parliament of Bavaria, a member of the Bundestag and a Member of the European Parliament.

Eckhardt was until 1943 a high-ranking official in the Reichs Ministry of Finance. In 1943 he joined the German army and was captured in early 1945 by the British. He remained in captivity until 1948. Following his repatriation he settled in Munich where he worked as a lawyer and became politically active. In 1949 he was elected president of the German Union and became a member of the directorate of the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights the following year. He was elected to the Parliament of Bavaria in 1950, serving until 1954. He was elected to the Bundestag, serving from 1953 to 1957. In 1955 he left the BHE and joined the CDU/CSU faction in March 1956. Following the resignation of Otto von Feury, Eckhardt, who had not been elected in the first place, rejoined the Bundestag for the rest of the term. Similarly, he only rejoined the Bundestag after the next elections as replacement candidate from 1964 to 1969. Additionally, Eckhardt served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1954 to 1956.

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Born
Mar 23, 1906
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Nationality
  • Germany
Died
Jan 1, 1994

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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