Walter Kolbow

Walter Kolbow
Kolbow in 2015
Parliamentarian State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Defense
In office 27 October 1998 – 22 November 2005
Chancellor	Gerhard Schröder
Preceded by	Christian Schmidt
Member of the Bundestag
In office 5 October 1980 – 27 September 2009
Personal details
Born	(1944-04-27)27 April 1944 Spittal an der Drau, Reichsgau Kärnten, Nazi Germany
Died	28 April 2024(2024-04-28) (aged 80) Ochsenfurt, Bavaria, Germany
Nationality	Germany
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Alma mater	University of Würzburg
Profession	Lawyer

Walter Kolbow (27 April 1944 – 28 April 2024) was a German politician of the SPD. He was Parliamentary State Secretary^[1] (1998–2005) in the Federal Ministry of Defense, as well as deputy chairman of SPD Parliamentary Group in German Bundestag (2005–2009).