Education
He completed his law studies in 1996, and has since worked as an attorney.
politician Member of the Hessian Parliament
He completed his law studies in 1996, and has since worked as an attorney.
In 1999, Walter was elected to the Parliament of Hesse. Until 2003, he was Secretary General of Social Democratic Party of Germany Hesse, and from 2003 until November 2008, he was vice chairman of Social Democratic Party of Germany Hesse. From February 2003 to January 2008, he was chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany parliamentary faction in the Hessian parliament.
In August 2006, he was a candidate for the nomination as top candidate (and Prime Minister candidate) of Social Democratic Party of Germany in Hesse.
He received 165 votes, while leftist Andrea Ypsilanti received 175 votes. On 3 November 2008, he declared, together with fellow Social Democratic Party of Germany MPs Carmen Everts, Silke Tesch and Dagmar Metzger, that he would not support Andrea Ypsilanti as Prime Minister of Hesse, in a planned election.
Ypsilanti, chair of Social Democratic Party of Germany in Hesse, was supposed to form a government with support of the leftist extremist party Die Linke, the successor of the East German communist party. The Social Democratic Party of Germany party had, before the election, vowed not under any circumstances to cooperate with Die Linke.
Walter became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1987, and was chairman of Jusos in Hesse from 1996 to 1999. He was a member of the city council of Gernsheim 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 Gerhard Schröder.
Without the support of his party, Jürgen Walter could not run for another term as a member of parliament in the 2009 election.