Hermann Schirmer

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Hermann Schirmer (born December 2, 1897 in Stockheim , † February 12, 1981 in Nuremberg ) was a Bavarian politician of the KPD .

Life

Schirmer worked for MAN in Nuremberg from 1914 and first joined the SPD . He later switched to the USPD and finally to the KPD.

Schirmer was married to Anna Schirmer, a son of the two, Gregor Schirmer , became professor of international law at the University of Jena and a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR.

Hermann Schirmer's experiences in the world of work and as a soldier in the First World War made him a fighter for changing social conditions. He was accepted into the district leadership of the KPD, was elected its North Bavarian secretary and in 1929 to the Nuremberg city council.

After Hitler came to power, Schirmer went into hiding and tried to organize communist resistance against the Nazis. He was arrested and held for almost four years in prison and in the Dachau concentration camp .

When the KPD was the first party to be re-approved by the Americans after the end of the war, Schirmer became Bavarian state chairman . He participated in the Bavarian constitution and from 1945 sat again on the Nuremberg city council. In 1946 he was a member of the Bavarian State Constitutional Assembly.

In 1956 the KPD was banned. Hermann Schirmer lost his seat on the city council, after a decision by the Bavarian Interior Minister Otto Bezold he had to give it up as a non-party member.

As a man of letters, Schirmer started to come to terms with the past. In 1975 he was awarded the Karl Marx Order in the GDR .

literature

  • Hermann Schirmer: The other Nuremberg. Anti-fascist resistance in the city of the Nazi party rallies . Frankfurt am Main: Röderberg-Verlag, 1974, 255 pp. (Library of Resistance)
  • Schirmer, Hermann . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 4, 1975, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Schirmer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockheim (Upper Franconia)
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1981
Place of death Nuremberg