Willi Trostel
Willi Trostel (born November 14, 1894 in Zurich ; † July 1, 1942 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss communist .
The carpenter's son was a socialist Zurich cantonal councilor in 1917 and arrested during the November riots in the same year. In 1920 he married Katharina Horsch, known as Käthe Lehmann.
In 1921 he was a founding member of the Communist Party of Switzerland (KPS), for which he sat in the Zurich Cantonal Council from 1923–1926, 1929–1935 and from 1939 until the party was banned in 1940. 1925–1931 he was a Zurich municipal councilor , that is, a member of the city parliament. From 1923 Trostel was editor at the fighter , head of the Swiss Red Aid and secretary of the International Red Aid , financed from Moscow from 1926.
The Trostel family was responsible for the accommodation of Italian and German refugees and was the contact point for travelers to and from the USSR. In 1923, when Fritz Platten emigrated to the Soviet Union, they took in his son.
Web links
- Ruth Ammann: Willi Trostel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Trostel, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss communist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1942 |
| Place of death | Zollikon |