Willi Bohn
Willi Bohn (born August 6, 1900 in Gotha , † January 23, 1985 in Stuttgart ) was a German journalist and politician .
Life
As early as 1916, the worker's son in Gotha was distributing leaflets against the war and founded discussion clubs with like-minded young people. He first became a member of the USPD and then the KPD . At the age of 21 he became a member of the Gotha City Council. Since 1925 he was married to Mariechin Schmidt. Bohn was editor-in-chief of the Niedersächsische Arbeiterzeitung in Hanover until 1931. From 1932 he worked as editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Arbeiterzeitung.
In 1933, Bohn joined the resistance. He took part in the illegal meeting of the Central Committee of the KPD on February 7, 1933 in the sports store Ziegenhals near Berlin. He was involved in the planning of the cable attack: the broadcast of a speech by Adolf Hitler on the radio was sabotaged. Bohn organized the " Otto Transport Column ". Starting in the spring of 1933, this group smuggled newspapers and pamphlets from Switzerland via the Rhine and Lake Constance to south-west Germany. B. Information about the bombing of Guernica .
The group was targeted by the Gestapo in October 1933 , and, alongside other members of the group, Willi Bohn and other distributors of the smuggled magazines were arrested by the illegal KPD district leadership in Stuttgart (e.g. Walter Vielhauer ). Nevertheless, the group was able to continue its activity during the entire period of National Socialism. In 1935, Bohn was arrested.
After the war he became an editor at the Stuttgarter Zeitung . From 1946 to 1959 he was a member of the Stuttgart City Council. In 1949 he became editor-in-chief of the Volksstimme in Stuttgart. In 1953 he ran for the KPD for the Bundestag election. In 1968 he was a founding member of the DKP .
Works
- The fate of your community in your hands Party executive d. Communist. Party, Düsseldorf 1952
- VVN Baden-Württemberg, 20 [twenty] years of wrestling State board member d. VVN Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1967
- Transport column Otto Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970
- Stuttgart, secret! Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1978 3rd edition.
- One of the many publishing houses Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1981
- "Treason!" Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984
literature
- Bohn, Willi Karl . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Willi Bohn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bohn, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1985 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |