Biography
Albert Wilhelm Walter was a German knitter born in Saxony in 1889. He immigrated to the United States in 1912, joined the Socialist Party in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and became secretary of its German Federation in 1916. Walter transferred to the Communist Party in 1919 and became its Indiana state secretary that November. He sent his wife Martha and their two American-born daughters to Germany before the federal government deported him on January 12, 1921.
Photograph: Albert Wilhelm Walter; Fort Wayne Sentinel, January 5, 1920. Reproduced by Kenyon Zimmer. The source image is preserved unaltered.
