Anton Waibel

Toni Waibel (standing, second from left) with members of the Munich council government in custody, around 1920

Anton "Toni" Waibel (born March 11, 1889 in Dewangen , † February 12, 1969 in West Berlin ) was a German communist revolutionary.

Life

Waibel comes from a Catholic Swabian family, did an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker and later worked as a commercial clerk. From 1906 a union member and active in the working class , from 1907 he belonged to the SPD . He took part in the International Socialist Congresses in 1907 and 1912 . During the First World War he stayed partly in Switzerland. There he took part in the Zimmerwald conference of war opponents in September 1915 , met Lenin and joined his “Zimmerwald Left”. Finally, he was briefly imprisoned for "mutiny" and then expelled to Germany in February 1919.

In 1919 he became a member and propaganda officer of the KPD in Munich . In mid-March 1919 he was sent to Würzburg by the Munich Central Council of Bavarian Councils. After Erich Mühsam had notified the Soviet Republic in Munich by telegram on April 7, Waibel proclaimed on April 7, 1919 at 4 p.m. on the former Neumünsterplatz (between Würzburg Cathedral and the Neumünster Collegiate Monastery ), which is now the Museum am Dom (formerly Kilianshaus ) is built, in Würzburg the council republic (also called "council dictatorship"). However, this only existed until April 9th. Due to its participation in the struggles of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in the Action Committee and in the leadership of the Red Army , he was 15 years imprisonment convicted. He fled the Niederschönenfeld prison in 1921 and stayed abroad until 1928. First in Moscow at the KUNMS , later as a member of the Communist Party of Russia for the Comintern, among others in the Balkans. He took part in the third to sixth World Congress of the Comintern. After the Hindenburg amnesty in 1928, after the remainder of his sentence had been waived in the course of amnesty measures, he moved back to Germany and became secretary of the Red Aid of Germany, which is closely related to the KPD, as well as jointly responsible for the magazine Tribunal and speaker at party schools.

Waibel was arrested in Stuttgart on January 30, 1933 and sentenced on June 16, 1933 to a two-year prison term by the 5th Criminal Division of the Reich Court. In July 1933 he also received a one-year prison sentence from the Stuttgart Regional Court for "mutiny". He was imprisoned continuously until 1945, most recently in Buchenwald concentration camp . After his liberation he was treated in the hospital until July 1945, seriously ill. In Berlin he headed the KPD / SED local group in Berlin-Hermsdorf until 1947 . He turned against Stalinism in the SED , which is why he was accused as a Trotskyist in a party trial in 1951/52 and expelled from the party. In 1969 he died in West Berlin.

literature

Erich Mühsam : Diaries 1910 - 1924. dtv 2004. ISBN 978-3423132190 .
Handbook of the German Communists
Matthias Stickler : New beginning and continuity: Würzburg in the Weimar Republic. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007, pp. 177-195 and 1268-1271; here: p. 181 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Matthias Stickler : New Beginning and Continuity: Würzburg in the Weimar Republic. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 181 f. and p. 1269, note 18.
^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1236.
^ Matthias Stickler: New Beginning and Continuity: Würzburg in the Weimar Republic. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1269, note 23.

personal data
SURNAME	Waibel, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Waibel, Toni (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German communist revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dewangen
DATE OF DEATH	February 12, 1969
Place of death	West Berlin

[1] Matthias Stickler : New Beginning and Continuity: Würzburg in the Weimar Republic. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 181 f. and p. 1269, note 18.

[2] Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1236.

[3] Matthias Stickler: New Beginning and Continuity: Würzburg in the Weimar Republic. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1269, note 23.