Children Gustav Schutz Name Walter Schutz | Role German Politician Resigned March 29, 1933 | |
Constituency Wahlkreis 1 (East Prussia) Born October 25, 1897
Wehlau, East Prussia ( 1897-10-25 ) Political party Communist Party of Germany Died March 29, 1933, Konigsberg Party Communist Party of Germany | ||
Walter Schütz (25 October 1897 – between 27 and 29 March 1933) was a German communist politician.
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Biography
Schütz was born in Wehlau (today Znamensk, Russia), 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 (KPD) 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" (Echo of the East).
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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