Karl Ibach

Karl Ibach ( born April 3, 1915 in Wuppertal Elberfeld today; † 3 May 1990) was a German resistance fighter in the Third Reich, writer and local politicians.

Life

Karl Ibach joined already at the age of sixteen the Young Communist League and the Communist Party. He wanted to be a bookseller, but was deported as the youngest inmate in the Wuppertal Kemna concentration camp in the spring of 1933 and not released until the end of 1933. Ibach continued his fight against the Nazi regime and fled to the Netherlands, but was arrested shortly after his return, and a little later convicted for alleged conspiracy to commit high treason in Hamm in the context of Wuppertal union processes to an eight-year prison sentence. By 1943 he was in concentration camps and prisons - including the Esterwegen, the concentration camp Börgermoor and the Waldheim - detained. In 1943 he had to join the probation unit 999; in the camp Heuberg he was drilled to later defend the hated regime by him at the front. Ibach came in 1944 in Soviet captivity and was released only in 1947. In 1948 he published his experience reports from the KZ Kemna. For over three decades, it should remain the only published information on the history of the regional concentration camp system together with Willi hamlet written reports.

Karl Ibach was co-founder, CEO and 1950-1971 national president of the Federation of Victims of the Nazi regime, and from 1954 to 1969 Deputy Chairman of the Association of Democratic resistance fighters and pursuing organizations, and member of the Executive Committee of the Fédération Internationale Libre des Déportés et INTERNAL de la Resistance in Wuppertal -Barmen He was a member of the SPD since 1957 and supervised the constituency 76 country list of North Rhine- Westphalia By 1957 until 1980.

Honors

Karl Ibach in 1985 awarded the Honorary Ring of the city of Wuppertal.

The road above the Beyenburger street in Wuppertal, opposite the surface on which the KZ Kemna was is named after Karl Ibach Ibach - way.