Karl Ibach

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Karl Ibach (born April 3, 1915 in Elberfeld ; † May 3, 1990 ) was a German resistance fighter in the Third Reich , a writer and local politician .

Life

Karl Ibach joined the Communist Youth Association and the KPD at the age of sixteen . He wanted to become a bookseller, but in the spring of 1933 he was the youngest inmate to be taken to the Kemna concentration camp in Wuppertal , from where he was released at the end of 1933. Ibach continued his fight against the Nazi regime and fled to the Netherlands , but was arrested shortly after his return and shortly afterwards sentenced to eight years in prison for allegedly preparing for high treason in Hamm as part of the Wuppertal trade union trials. Until 1943 he was held in concentration camps and prisons - including the Esterwegen concentration camp , the Börgermoor concentration camp and the Waldheim prison .

In 1943 he had to join the parole unit 999 ; he was trained in the Heuberg camp in order to later defend the regime he hated at the front. Ibach was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1944 and was released in 1947. In 1948 he published his reports from the Kemna concentration camp . For three decades, together with Willi Weiler's written reports , it was to remain the only published sources of information on the history of the regional concentration camp system.

Karl Ibach was co-founder, managing director and from 1950 to 1971 country director of the Federation of Persecuted Persons of the Nazi Regime , and from 1954 to 1969 deputy chairman of the Central Association of Democratic Resistance Fighters and Organizations of the Persecuted , and a member of the Presidium of the Fédération Internationale Libre des Déportés et Internés de la Resistance in Wuppertal- Barmen . He was a member of the SPD from 1957 and was in charge of constituency 76 , the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1957 to 1980.

Honors

Fonts

  • Kemna: Wuppertal concentration camp 1933–1934. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1948.

literature

  • Peter Steinbach : Karl Ibach. On the biography of a resistance fighter. Scientific publishing house Richard Rothe, Passau 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Albel, Christian Schott: Persecuted, Accused, Condemned. Political resistance and oppositional behavior in Wuppertal 1933–45. Documentation of biographical data, proceedings, charges (= persecution and resistance in Wuppertal. Volume 5). Achterland, Bocholt / Bredevoort 2001, ISBN 3-933377-54-4 , p. 96. ( wuppertaler- resistance.de ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. (PDF; 1.5 MB), Wuppertaler-Widerstand.de, accessed March 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wuppertaler- resistance.de
  2. ↑ Biography Karl Ibach , GDW-Berlin.de, access May 2008
  3. ^ Jan Erik Schulte (ed.): Concentration camps in the Rhineland and Westphalia 1933–1945. Central control and regional initiative. Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 350671743X ( books.google.de ).
  4. ^ Ibach, Karl . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Ibach to Jutzi] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 546 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 149 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  5. ↑ List of winners of the ring of honor of the city of Wuppertal ( Memento from February 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Werner-Steinbach.de, accessed May 2008.
  6. ↑ KZ Kemna , Jugendring.de, accessed May 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Ibach, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter in the Third Reich, writer and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1990