Ernst Schneider (aka Jan Appel)?

I thought they were two completely different people!!

"Icarus’ was the pseudonym of Ernst Schneider (1883-1970?). Born in Königsberg, he was a harbour worker and seaman (steersman); he had been a social-democrat, then an editor of the review Kampf, in Hamburg, “independent organ for Anarchism and Syndicalism’ (1912-1914). Member of the Wilhelmshaven IKD, he was active in the naval mutinies of 1918. In jail after the Wilhelmshaven insurrection of January 1919. His spectacular evasion from prison in Sept. 1920 gave him the nickname of Ikarus. He participated to the formation of the KAPD in Bremen in 1920. In 1923, he was active in the KPD October insurrection of Hamburg, as KAPD/AAU leader. Secretary of the German Seamen Association (Deutscher Seemansbund – DSB) in Bremerhaven, 1926-29. From 1926 to 1929, he was the organisator of the Seamen's AAU in Cuxhaven, and the editor of the seamen unionist review: Wellenbrecher (‘Wavebreaker’), Bordzeitung der Seeleute. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1935, and could come to Britain over Antwerp in 1939. Active against the war in the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, and one of the main contributors to Solidarity between 1938 and 1945.His group, with the review, Solidarity, defended internationalist positions during the Second World War."
And contrast this with bio of Jan Appel on Wikipedia. Definitely two different people.

Many thanks for the bio on Ernst Schneider Battlescarred! Its true that both Ernst and Jan Appel are two different militants I remember reading Icarus's pamphlet back in the late 1970's and being so impressed by both the revolutionary German workers movement and the revolt of the German sailors at Wilhelmshaven in 1918 and the revolutionary conviction and bravery of Ernst, a conviction also shared by Jan Appel both were truely remarkable militants. Jan as far as I know never travelled to Britain but as has been correctly pointed out remained in Holland. I remember Joe Thomas (who knew Ernst) telling me that he worked in the 1950's as a school boilerman for the London County Council and as far as I know retained his working class conviction right to his death albeit in the political wilderness of the 1950's.

Melmoth