The Dorfen entrepreneur Anton Wilm died at the age of 89.
He built up the garbage disposal in Dorfen.
Dorfen
- He was a man with visions, someone who brought what he tackled to success.
Anton Wilm is well known to the people of the village.
Now “Schutte Toni”, as he was called, has died at the age of 89.
When it comes to waste and recycling in Dorfen, one immediately thinks of Wilm. Born in Dorfen, he founded today's Wilm Entsorgungs-Recycling GmbH with 40 employees and ran it for many years. At that time, Wilm started with the emptying of around 80 residual waste bins. The entrepreneur, who was born in October 1931, had a completely different start to his professional life.
Like his ancestors, Anton was supposed to be a chimney sweeper. And so he did the apprenticeship in this profession. But after his apprenticeship, no sweeping area became available for him. Wilm was doing a second apprenticeship there. Since aviation had always fascinated him, he learned to be an aircraft mechanic. To make his dream come true, he needed money. "He financed his apprenticeship as a 'Only Die' pantyhose representative, which, however, was not in keeping with his nature," says his daughter Beate. Wilm, who was always somehow a doer, always wanted to be his own boss.
And so he changed his occupation again in 1960 and bought a truck. From then on, Wilm used this used Tatra to carry general cargo for various companies. Years later, in his wife Therese's (deceased 2007) grocery store on Bahnweg, he became aware of a grievance: Many customers did not know what to do with the ashes or garbage that could not be burned in the oven. It was Wilm's hour. He set up a total of 50 iron barrels in Dorfen and the surrounding area. The people of Dorfen could dispose of their rubbish there against payment of a collection fee, which was collected by the community servant. Once a week Wilm loaded the bins onto the loading platform of his Tatra, emptied them and put them back. The garbage disposal in Dorfen was born.
The butcher and mayor of Kirchheim near Munich, from whom Wilm often went to get his snack, also found out about this.
The Kirchheimer commissioned the Dorfener with the installation and disposal of ashes and rubbish in his community.
In 1972 the federal government passed the Waste Disposal Act, which among other things stipulates that waste disposal vehicles must be closed.
In 1980 Wilm therefore became a pioneer in the field of recycling and waste glass disposal.
He bought the necessary containers for this and set them up in shops.
The waste glass was emptied into large containers at the Stitteneder loading ramp in Moosen Monastery.
In 1982 Wilm had a transfer station built in the Gewerbering in Dorfen.
There he sorted out the recyclables and pressed paper and cardboard.
Wilm handed over his company to daughter Beate and her husband Karl Heinz Kräutler in 1996.
In 1990 Wilm began to pursue his hobby, military technology.
He found a box van and a swimming car from the Second World War in poor condition, bought them and rebuilt both vehicles true to the original down to the last screw.
In 1995 the entrepreneur bought a broken-down Fiseler Storch. Together with the aviation enthusiast Karl Mangstl from Wasentegernbach, Wilm rebuilt an airworthy machine from the scrap heap in his workshop over many years. The aircraft was built next to pressed blocks of waste paper and recycling machines. All parts come from the 1930s, painstakingly worn together at flea markets. In 2000 the Fiseler Storch was the absolute eye-catcher at a flight demonstration at the historic aircraft yard in Oberschleißheim.