Paul Korb

Paul Willy Korb (born August 30, 1904 in Schwarzenberg ; † January 28, 2002 ibid) was a German plumber and varnisher, a communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and later a KPD / SED politician in the district town of Schwarzenberg.

Life

Korb had seven siblings and attended elementary school in Schwarzenberg from 1911 to 1918, after which he trained as a plumber and varnisher at the Krauss factory . From 1925 to 1930 he worked as a punch in Beierfeld .

He joined the KPD in 1927 .

In 1933 he was arrested and taken to the Zschorlau concentration camp and then to the Sachsenburg concentration camp . In 1936 he was released. In 1942 he was called up for military service. He came to the Eastern Front, where he was seriously wounded a year later and returned home. Immediately after the end of the Second World War, he became a member of the anti-fascist action committee in the unoccupied Schwarzenberg on May 11, 1945 . He took over the city police office and a little later also the registration and registry office . These functions were the reason for a large number of honors that he later received in the GDR.

From 1956 he worked for the Ministry of State Security . Later he worked as Head of cadres at the district council (1957), the first deputy chairman of the Council of the circle and as a representative of the Interior and Chairman of the Planning Commission Schwarzenberg (1958-1961). He gave up these offices in 1961 for health reasons.

Honors (selection)

1965 Medal of Merit of the GDR
1970 Ernst Schneller Medal
1971 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
1980 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
In 1984 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Schwarzenberg.

Publications

83 days in Zschorlau concentration camp 1933. Committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters in the Stollberg district, Aue, Schwarzenberg, 1978.
The Bermsgrün workers' home, Schwarzenberg district. Commission for research into the history of the local labor movement at the district leadership of the SED Schwarzenberg, 1981

literature

Lenore Lobeck: The Schwarzenberg Utopia: History and Legend in "No Man's Land" . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2004, pp. 165f. ISBN 3-374-02231-6 .

Web links

Andreas Peschel: Paul Korb (1904-2002) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

personal data
SURNAME	Basket, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Korb, Paul Willy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb.
DATE OF DEATH	January 28, 2002
Place of death	Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb.