Eduard Wald (10 March 1905 – 5 November 1978) was a Communist politician, trade unionist and member of the German Resistance against Nazism.
In 1926, he became the editor of the Niedersächsischen Arbeiterzeitung,[1] the Lower Saxony workers' newspaper and from 1926 to 1927, he was district treasurer.
He was able to build a Resistance group called the Committee for Proletarian Unity (Komitee für Proletarische Einheit).
He kept in close contact with the Versöhnler group organized by Hans Westermann in Hamburg and the Hannover Socialist Workers' Party under Otto Brenner.
From 23 August 1946 to 29 October 1946 he was a representative in the State of Hanover legislature established under the British occupation forces.
[2] In 1948, Wald became the leader of the Confederation of German Trade Unions in Lower Saxony and on the national level.