Karl Willmann

Karl Willmann (born June 22, 1908 in Darmstadt ; † April 13, 1976 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Hessian politician ( KPD ) and a member of the Hessian state parliament .

Life

Karl Willmann was the son of the furniture foreman Peter Willmann. After attending elementary school, administration academy and technical college, Karl Willmann worked as a commercial clerk in a machine factory in Darmstadt. Since 1923 he was a member of the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association of the Free Gymnastics Community and the Free Water Sports Club in Darmstadt. As an apprentice, he became a union member and head of the youth group of the Central Employees' Association in Darmstadt. In 1929 he became an employee of the German-Russian Naphta Society in Frankfurt and later in Essen , where he became chairman of the works council. In 1929 he joined the KPD.

After the " seizure of power " by the NSDAP , he was dismissed in 1933. As a result, he was interrogated several times and temporarily detained.

At the end of 1934 he took a position at the German-American Petroleum Company in Essen, where he developed from an assistant to an accountant. In 1940 he became a tax auditor at the Oberfinanzdirektion Düsseldorf.

In August 1940 Willmann was drafted into the Navy . Under the command of the small combat units, Willmann's unit, the 4th Marine Vehicle Operations Department, was involved in the shootings of partisans and civilians on August 12, 1944 in Malga Zonta near Lavarone in Italy. Nothing is known about a possible personal involvement of Willmann in the shootings. In 2007, preliminary investigations against Willmann were opened at the central office in Ludwigsburg and at the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office for the shooting of partisans in Italy.

Wilmann experienced the end of the war as an English prisoner of war.

From September 1945 until his retirement he was a tax auditor at the Darmstadt tax office. In 1946 he became works council and in 1947 works council chairman.

politics

In 1945 he became chairman of the local KPD association in Darmstadt-Eberstadt. From March 29, 1946 to July 14, 1946 he was (as a replacement for Heinrich Haase ) a member of the Advisory State Committee and from July 15, 1946 to November 30, 1946 a member of the State Assembly of Greater Hesse that advised the constitution . He was then a member of the Hessian state parliament for an electoral term from December 1, 1946 to September 26, 1950.

From 1948 he was a member of the city council in Darmstadt. There he was chairman of the sports committee. In 1950 he resigned all mandates and was expelled from the KPD.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 430 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , pp. 411-412.
• "... towards democracy" - The minutes of the Advisory State Committee of Greater Hesse in 1946 - A documentation, edited by Bernhard Parisius and Jutta Scholl-Seibert , Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-930221-05-5 , pages 51– 52.

Web links

• Willmann, Karl. Hessian biography. (As of November 21, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Albrecht Kirschner: Final report of the working group on the preliminary study "Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members" of the commission of the Hessian state parliament for the research project "Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse" . Ed .: Hessischer Landtag . Wiesbaden 2013, p. 38, 49 ( Download [PDF; 479 kB ]).