Wilhelm Spicher

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Wilhelm Spicher (born August 20, 1898 in Hückeswagen brand , † August 1, 1987 in Düsseldorf ) was a politician of the KPD .

Life

Spicher did an apprenticeship as a tool lathe operator and later worked as a sales representative. He had been a member of a free trade union since 1918 and a member of the KPD since 1922. Between 1922 and 1923 Spicher was a member of a works council. He was also a city councilor from 1924 to 1933. In 1932 Spicher was a member of the Reichstag .

During the Nazi era he was arrested several times between 1933 and 1944 and sat in prisons and concentration camps , including the Lüttringhausen prison and the Kemna concentration camp . a. Spicher went into hiding between 1944 and 1945.

From 1945 he was district and state secretary of the KPD. Since that time he was again a city councilor. Spicher was a member of the appointed Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia in the first appointment period . He entered the first elected state parliament via the state list .

Individual evidence

  1. The Left in the Council. (PDF; 2.0 MB) Online publication by the DIE LINKE parliamentary group in the Wuppertal City Council on October 6, 2007.
  2. ^ Spicher, Wilhelm. The assemblyman. In: Dirk Gerhard: Antifascists. Proletarian Resistance 1933-1945. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 1976, pp. 25-47.

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