Walter Schütz


Walter Schütz was a German communist politician.

Biography

Schütz was born in Wehlau, where he attended school. He was trained as a machine fitter and worked at the municipal electricity works of Königsberg.
After World War I he worked as a car mechanic and joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1919. Schütz became the East Prussian Chairman of the Communist Party and Chief editor of the communist newspaper for East Prussia "Echo des Ostens".
Schütz was elected as a member of the Reichstag in September 1930. He was arrested by the Nazi-SA in February or March 1933 and tortured and murdered in the SA headquarters of Königsberg.

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