14 Facts About Walter Wolfgang

Walter Jakob Wolfgang was a German-born British socialist and peace activist.

Walter Wolfgang was a supporter of the Stop the War Coalition.

The eviction of Walter Wolfgang provoked much media comment and embarrassed the Labour leadership.

Walter Wolfgang attended Ottershaw College, Chertsey, while his parents followed him to Britain two years later and settled in Richmond.

Walter Wolfgang allied with the left and was Secretary of the Bevanite pressure group 'Victory for Socialism' from 1955 to 1958.

Walter Wolfgang co-authored several of Victory for Socialism's pamphlets, including In Pursuit of Peace and The Red Sixties ; Wolfgang assisted Hugh Jenkins in writing Summit Talks and on an unpublished work on Socialism in general in the late 1950s.

In 1956, Walter Wolfgang co-wrote a pamphlet Tho' Cowards Flinch calling for all meetings of the Parliamentary Labour Party to be made open meetings for the press to report, and for the abolition of the standing orders of the PLP to allow Labour MPs freedom to defy the Labour whip.

Walter Wolfgang was a founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958, participating in the group's first march to Aldermaston.

Walter Wolfgang attended the 2005 Labour Party conference as a visitor and sat in the part of the hall reserved for visitors, which is at the back.

Several conference stewards, who were on alert for any attempts to disrupt the speech, then picked up and removed Walter Wolfgang and confiscated his security pass, briefly detaining him under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Walter Wolfgang justified his actions by saying "when you have an international debate that does not deal adequately with the international issues of the day, the least you can do, if someone is talking nonsense, is say so".

Walter Wolfgang was quickly hailed as a hero by sections of the Labour Party and sections of the media.

Walter Wolfgang's pass to the Labour party conference was at first withdrawn following the incident, but this decision was later reversed and he returned to the conference the following day to a "hero's welcome".

Walter Wolfgang was a long-standing member of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy, a group which campaigns to increase the level of democracy within the Labour Party.