Ilmer biography
Email: MP4-DVD NAROD. His childhood was heavy. The boy very successfully graduated from the city school, but he did not have to continue his studies in the gymnasium - they lived poorly. Father took his son to the local paper factory and attached it to a friend to a familiar locksmith. On the harsh days of the year, a developed young man entered the factory combat squad for years.
Together with the senior comrades, Karl Ilmer made daggers and primitive bombs and disarmed the police and gendarmes. Ligatnei combatants participated in combat contractions with Cossacks and the police in Riga. At the end of December, a difficult time of pogroms and repressions came. Fasting of the reprisal, Karl Ilmer goes into deaf forests. In the year, Karl Ilmer enters the party.
Since that time, he is a professional revolutionary: he traveles cities and workers in Latvia, establishes party communications, and spreads illegal literature. In Riga, he is part of the agitation and propaganda collegium. Soon, Karl Ilmer is introduced into the strongly thinned Riga Committee of the Social Democracy of the Latvian Territory. Underground organizations fail; They hang, shoot, kill “when trying to escape” the best sons of the working class Karl Ilmer, aka Peter Weiss, aka Automat, selects new, devoted revolutions of people, and restores the organization.
In the year, Karl Ilmer was arrested. The torture masters in the Riga Central Prison could not break the will of the will of the professional revolutionary. After a protracted investigation, Karl Ilmer was released from prison. He understood that it was no longer possible to stay in Latvia, and went to Baku with a passport in the name of Jean Bergman and with the address of the venerable apartment.
On the instructions of the Baku party organization, Karl Ilmer conducts underground work among the Caspian sailors. Having mined a hectograph, he organizes the release of revolutionary leaflets and spreads them on the ships of the Caspian shipping company. The gendarmes attacked the trail of the underground and arrested them. Karl Ilmer was sentenced to a five -year link to the Narymsky Territory.
Two years later, Ilmer manages to run. After long wandering in the taiga, he gets to Petrograd. Having established ties with the comrades who were still familiar with the Riga underground, Karl Ilmer is included in the work of the military Bolshevik organization. In the days of the February Revolution, he participates in street fights with the police and gendarmes.
For the rest of his life, Karl Ilmer was remembered by the day of April 3 of the year, - together with his friends he met at the Finland station V. Lenin and listened to him inspired, calling for the struggle. A wonderful propagandist speaker, Karl Ilmer often performs at rallies and meetings in the 1st city district, exposes the treacherous role of the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries.
At the same time, Karl Petrovich is fruitfully working in the Latvian district committee of the party, he collaborates in the Tsina newspaper Struggle. The October Socialist Revolution happened! Karl Ilmer is appointed food commissar of the Alexander Nevsky district of Petrograd. The Soviet government inherited from tsarism hunger and devastation. The bread front is the most responsible, the most difficult.
In Omsk, Ilmer is elected a member of the West Siberian Regional Council and appointed the food commissar of the Akmola region.
The first echelons with the grain of Siberia went to the starving centers of Russia. In the summer of the year, the Czechoslovak and White Guard forces captured Omsk. Karl Ilmer - a member of the military headquarters of the Siberian Army - participated in the defense of the city and, as a special authorized man of the People's Commissariat of Narcomprod, sent bread to Moscow from the areas to be evacuated.
An experienced conspiracy and a skilled propagandist finds ally in the Bolshevik underground and starts to prepare the uprising in the rear of Kolchak. Working squads were supposed to perform simultaneously in all major cities of Western Siberia. Karl Ilmer and his friend Jan Bredis were tortured by executioners in prison. Reviews about the article :.