Jürgen Walter (born 23 August 1968 in

Jugenheim Seeheim-Jugenheim is a municipality in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in Hesse, Germany. It has a population of approximately 17,000. Seeheim-Jugenheim consists of seven villages: *Balkhausen (population 693) *Jugenheim (population 4,448) *Malch ...

) is a German lawyer and politician, and a former member of the Parliament of Hesse for the

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(SPD). He completed his law studies in 1996, and has since worked as an attorney. Walter became a member of the SPD in 1987, and was chairman of

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in Hesse from 1996 to 1999. He was a member of the city council of

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from 1993 to 2002. Jürgen Walter is a member of the Netzwerk Hessen, which together with the Netzwerk Berlin strongly supported the policies of Chancellor

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. In 1999, Walter was elected to the Parliament of Hesse. Until 2003, he was Secretary General of SPD Hesse, and from 2003 until November 2008, he was vice chairman of SPD Hesse. From February 2003 to January 2008, he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary faction in the Hessian parliament. In August 2006, he was a candidate for the nomination as top candidate (and Prime Minister candidate) of SPD in Hesse. He received 165 votes, while leftist

Andrea Ypsilanti Andrea Ypsilanti (' Dill; born 8 April 1957) is a German politician. Political career Ypsilanti was a member of the Hesse, Hessian ''Landtag'' (parliament) and served as chairperson of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic ...

received 175 votes. On 3 November 2008, he declared, together with fellow SPD MPs Carmen Everts,

Silke Tesch Silke Tesch (born 5 July 1958 in Dautphetal-Holzhausen) is a German politician and a former member of the Parliament of Hesse for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). On 5 April 2003, she was elected to the Parliament of Hesse. She was ...

and Dagmar Metzger, that he would not support

as Prime Minister of Hesse, in a planned election. Ypsilanti, chair of SPD in Hesse, was supposed to form a government with support of the leftist

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. The SPD party had, before the election, vowed not under any circumstances to cooperate with Die Linke. Without the support of his party, Jürgen Walter could not run for another term as a member of parliament in the 2009 election.

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''Parliament of Hesse'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Walter, Jurgen 1968 births Living people People from Darmstadt-Dieburg Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Members of the Landtag of Hesse German city councillors University of Mannheim alumni Politicians affected by a party expulsion process