Willy Roch

Willy Roch (born February 9, 1893 in Annaberg , † September 6, 1977 in Krefeld ) was a German educator and local researcher of the western Ore Mountains .

Life

Willy Roch attended the community school in his hometown and then the local teachers' college, where he passed the school leaving examination in 1913. At first he worked as an assistant teacher in Wildenfels . In 1914 he passed the electoral examination, shortly afterwards he was called up for military service in the First World War. He was a Landsturm infantryman.

In 1917 he was enrolled at the University of Leipzig , but due to military service he only began studying history, German, pedagogy and religious studies there two years later. Eduard Spranger was one of his teachers . In 1922 he successfully passed the state examination in Leipzig and then went back to school. First, Willy Roch was a teacher at the Annenschule in Annaberg, the second local community school. He then worked as a substitute teacher at the teachers' seminar in Annaberg, before temporarily working as a teacher in Tannenberg, before he was given a permanent position as a teacher at the Pestalozzi School in Annaberg, the first local school in 1923, where he continued until his new one He was called up for military service in 1939. He had previously joined the NSDAP in 1937 . However, his biographer Hans Burkhardt stated that he had never identified with National Socialist ideas .

After the end of the war in May 1945 he returned to Annaberg. A year later, he was entrusted with the organization and implementation of the 450th anniversary celebration. a. prepared a commemorative publication, which, however, was refused permission to print by the Soviet military administration . (The manuscript was ultimately only published in 2015.) In 1947 he took over the organization of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Pöhlberg tower .

In 1948 Willy Roch was arrested for the third time in a row by the Soviet secret police and in 1949 sentenced to ten years in a labor camp in Weimar for complicity in illegal organizations. He was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , in Untermaßfeld and in Torgau. In 1954 he was released early. Since his efforts to find a job in Annaberg were in vain, he moved to the Federal Republic, where he got a position as a teacher at the grammar school in Garenfeld . In 1957, Willy Roch retired. He died after a short, serious illness in 1977.

Act

Roch he made a lasting name for himself as an Adam Ries researcher alongside his professional colleague Fritz Deubner and as a local researcher for Annaberg and the surrounding area.

Works

• The Roch family in Annaberg and the surrounding area , Annaberg Sa., 1930. DNB 36163109X
• Anton Günther's pedigree , Zeitschrift Glückauf vol. 56, (1936), pp. 83–86.
• Adam Ries, math teacher of the German people. His life, his work and its meaning , Frankfurt / M. 1959. DNB 454065094
• Adam Ries. A picture of life , Leipzig, 1992. DNB 930109813
• The Eisenstuck family and their importance for Annaberg , Annaberg, 1996. DNB 94852801X
• Annaberg 1496-1946 , ed. by Karl and Edith Drechsler, Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-86465-057-4

literature

• Hans Burkhardt : Willy Roch booklet. Attempt to portray life (= forays through the history of the upper Ore Mountains, issue 55), Annaberg-Buchholz [2002]. DNB 988316226
• Hans Burkhardt: Willy Roch - a life for Adam Ries. In memory of Willy Roch's 100th birthday . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 39, 1992, No. 2, pp. 95-97.

Web links

• Literature by and about Willy Roch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Willy Roch in the Saxon Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Burkhardt: Willy Roch - a life for Adam Ries. In memory of Willy Roch's 100th birthday . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 39, 1992, No. 2, p. 95 (Attention: There is a risk of confusion with the NSDAP local group leader of the same name in Buchholz.)