Willy Irmisch

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Curt Willy Irmisch (born October 30, 1898 in Venusberg , † June 15, 1974 in Erlabrunn ) was a German local politician. He was the first mayor of the unoccupied district town of Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb after the end of the Second World War .

Life

He was born the son of master tailor Friedrich August Irmisch (1860–1923) and his wife Marie in Venusberg near Zschopau in the central Ore Mountains . Willy Irmisch attended the local elementary school and then completed an apprenticeship as a merchant at the Kunert & Neumann stocking factory in Venusberg and the Thum commercial school . From 1916 to 1917 he worked as an employee and then briefly as an accountant in the Eduard Beyer ink factory in Chemnitz .

In the last year of the First World War he moved to Schwarzenberg, where he got a job as an employee in the Karl Gossweiler company. In 1920 he became a member of the KPD local group in Schwarzenberg and, with the support of Ernst Schneller , was elected to head the local group and the Schwarzenberg KPD sub-district group in 1921. In 1922 he married Emmy Richter, who was born in 1899. After he was briefly arrested in 1923 for illegal work for the then banned KPD, he became unemployed on January 1, 1924. In April 1924 Willy Irmisch found a job as an accountant in an aluminum factory in Teichwolframsdorf . In August 1924 he was sentenced to four weeks in prison by the Zwickau Regional Court, which made him unemployed again. During this time he was the youngest member of the KPD to be elected to the city council of Schwarzenberg at the age of 26, where he worked with interruptions until 1933.

In the meantime, he worked in Berlin , Dresden and Aue (Saxony) . From March 1933 he was imprisoned by the National Socialists in Osterstein Castle and in the Zschorlau concentration camp . After his release in September 1933, he was again unemployed. It was not until the end of 1936 that Irmisch got a job as an emergency worker in the Pöhla forestry office, before he got another job as an accountant in the cardboard factory Gebr. Freitag in Raschau in August 1937, which he held until May 1945.

When Schwarzenberg and the surrounding area remained unoccupied by the Allies, later known as the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg , Willy Irmisch was elected acting mayor of the city of Schwarzenberg on May 12, 1945 by the anti-fascist action committee, which included Paul Korb . Since the CDU received 51.5% of the votes in the local elections in Schwarzenberg on September 1, 1946, he was replaced as mayor by the CDU candidate Friedrich Langenickel.

From 1948 to 1951, Willy Irmisch was then deputy district administrator for the Aue district .

From 1954 he and his wife worked unofficially for the Ministry of State Security .

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  1. ↑ Lenore Lobeck: The Schwarzenberg Utopia , in: Horch and Guck . Journal of the Museum Memorial in the “Round Corner” Leipzig (2004), issue 48, pp. 60–63. ISSN  1437-6164
personal data
SURNAME Irmisch, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Irmisch, Curt Willy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (KPD / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Venusberg (Drebach)
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1974
Place of death Erlabrunn (Breitenbrunn)