[1] It was, however, the Nazi Party that took power in January 1933, losing no time in transforming Germany into a one-party dictatorship.
He was badly injured at Stalingrad in 1942, and underwent a lengthy stay in a military hospital, after which he served in a medical battalion.
In 1949/50 he served as chairman of the Mecklenburg region Union of visual Artists ("Verband Bildender Künstler der DDR" / VBKD) also serving for a time as a member of the national committee of the union, membership of which was in effect mandatory for anyone wishing to pursue a career in the visual arts in East Germany.
[2] Between 1960 and 1965 Werner Laux held a teaching chair as professor and Institute Director at the Academy for Industrial Design at Giebichenstein Castle.
[2] Obituary reports for members of the East German party establishment were generally highly formulaic.
Nevertheless, even by the standards of the time and place, the one published in respect of Werner Laux by the party newspaper, Neues Deutschland, was exceptionally fulsome: