Wilhelm Bechtle

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Wilhelm Bechtle (born February 1, 1906 in Löchgau ; † August 17, 1971 in Stuttgart ) was a German KPD politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Bechtle, son of a social democratic grocer , was a gardener by profession. During the Nazi era , he was mostly in custody. It was after the seizure of power first arrested by the Nazis in January 1933 on 20 April 1933 and in the concentration camp Heuberg detained. After he was transferred to the Oberer Kuhberg concentration camp at the end of 1933 , he was initially released on November 10, 1934 and opened a vegetable shop in Stuttgart .

On 10 May 1935 he was arrested again and sat for two years in Ludwigsburg in custody . He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for working for the illegal KPD .

In 1940 she was transferred to the Welzheim concentration camp .

After the end of the war, he became involved in the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime and in the Friends of Nature . He was sentenced to prison in 1954 as one of the leading members of the Main Referendum Committee .

Bechtle's brother Reinhold died in 1938 in the Welzheim concentration camp.

Political party

Bechtle was initially a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany and joined the KPD in 1922 . After the Second World War he was State Secretary of the KPD.

MP

After the Second World War, Bechtle was a member of the Stuttgart City Council. From 1952 to 1956 he was a member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg . He was elected through a second mandate in the Stuttgart III constituency.

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SURNAME Bechtle, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Löchgau
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1971
Place of death Stuttgart