Hans Walz

Hans Walz (born 21 March 1883 in Stuttgart; died 23 April 1974) was a German merchant, and from 1926 to 1963 he was the managing director of Robert Bosch GmbH.

[2] In 1933, Walz and other high-ranking Bosch employees filed applications for admission in the Nazi Party (membership number 3,433,104).

Admission requests were processed in late summer and fall, and Walz's membership was granted retroactively to May 1 of that year.

[6] From 1938 to 1940, Walz had financed the emigration of Jews for Karl Adler, for which he was awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations in 1969 by Israel.

[7][8] He is one of the few Nazi Party members to be honoured this way, along with Oskar Schindler, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, Helmut Kleinicke, and Karl Plagge.