Walter Frank Wolfgang von Lengerke (September 4, 1935 – July 7, 2002) was a Canadian politician, who represented Whitehorse Riverdale on the Yukon Territorial Council from 1975 to 1978.
[1][2] Prior to his election to the territorial council, Lengerke served as city manager of Whitehorse.
[3] After Willard Phelps was disqualified from office on a conflict of interest ruling in 1975, Lengerke ran in the resulting by-election on November 3, which he won over future Whitehorse mayor Don Branigan.
He cited several reasons including a desire to spend more time with his family, a reluctance to working within the confines of partisan politics and an uncertainty about which district to even run in given that Whitehorse Riverdale was being split in the new redistribution of electoral boundaries.
[10] He ran for mayor of Whitehorse in the 1979 by-election that followed Ione Christensen's appointment as Commissioner of Yukon,[11] but lost to Branigan.