Margarete Walter
German politician
About Margarete Walter
Lived 1913 – 1935 (aged 22). Margarete Walter was a German politician, german resistance to Nazism and young Communist League of Germany.
Between 1949 and 1989 seven East German Polytechnic Secondary Schools were named after Grete Walter, in Berlin-Weissensee, Geising, Georgenthal, Greifswald, Schwarzheide, Schwepnitz and Wustrow
In the school yard at the Polytechnic Secondary School in Greifswald-Eldena a memorial stone was also placed, bearing the inscription "The antifascist resistance fighters", which on 4 February 1978 was formally "consecrated" to the honoured memory of the woman after the school had been named. The memorial was removed when the old school buildings were controversially torn down and replaced with a shopping centre, following reunification, however.
There are children's care institutions named after Grete Walter in Wismar and Polvitz, along with a youth hostel in Stralsund and a children's holiday centre in Sebnitz.
In the "VEB Kabelwerk Oberspree", which occupied the space taken by the vast AEG Cable factory when Grete Walter worked there during 1933–1935, a State Youth Organisation (FDJ) branch was installed and named after her.
Werk für Fernsehelektronik, the huge television manufacturer in Berlin-Oberschöneweide, had a company holiday complex in Dierhagen-Neuhaus on the North Sea coast that was named after Grete Walter.
An Artur Becker type feeder trawler was recently named after her.
In a little ceremony that took place on 14 November 2009, in response to an initiative by the VVN-BdA, the Cologne-based artist and Stolperstein ambassador, Gunter Demnig, fixed a Stolperstein memorial in the pavement/sidewalk outside the house at Fuldastraße 12 in Berlin-Neukölln which was Grete Walter's home at the time of her final arrest.
In the Burg the "Jugendwerkhof", during the German Democratic Republic era, there was a group named after her.
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Who was Margarete Walter?
German politician (1913-1935)
When was Margarete Walter born?
Margarete Walter was born on 22 February 1913 in Neukölln, Berlin.
When did Margarete Walter die?
Margarete Walter died on 21 October 1935 in Kreuzberg.
What was Margarete Walter's occupation?
Margarete Walter was a politician, german resistance to Nazism and young Communist League of Germany.
What nationality was Margarete Walter?
Margarete Walter was German.
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