FAUD
Bartling, Heinrich 1880-1940
Short biography of Heinrich Bartling, German anarchist active in the FAUD and FKAD and martyred by the Nazis.
Heinrich Bartling was born on 22nd September 1880 in Bielefeld. Very little biographical information is available on him. He worked as a fitter and later lived in Kassel. His political career took him together with others like Willi Paul from the Kassel Spartakusbund to the anarchosyndicalist Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD). They founded a local group of the FAUD in Kassel in 1920 .
The Foreign Legion of the Revolution
Dieter Nelles
"The Foreign Legion of the Revolution“[1]
German anarcho-syndicalist and Volunteers in Anarchist Militias during the Spanish Civil War
Götze, Ferdinand 'Nante', 1907-1985
A short biography of German anarcho-syndicalist, Ferdinand Götze, who was also active in Sweden and Spain.
Ferdinand Götze was born in Leipzig on March 28th, 1907, the son of the FAUD stalwart Anna Götze.
Götze, Anna, 1875-1958
A short biography of anarchist and German revolutionary Anna Götze.
Anna Götze was born in 1875. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party from 1897 up to 1917 and with the end of the war and the Revolution was one of the founders of the Spartakusbund. At the beginning of the 1920s she moved to a clear anarchist position and joined the FAUD. She worked as a folder in the printing industry.
Schmitz, Hans, 1914-2007
A short biography of German anarcho-syndicalist, militant anti-fascist and conscript to the Wehrmacht, Hans Schmitz.
Hans Schmitz was born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1914.
His father,* a leading activist in the anarcho-syndicalist union the FAUD, was a devout Catholic and a convinced pacifist from both a religious and ideological standpoint (!). Despite this, as Hans Schmitz reports, he carried a weapon as a member of the “Red Ruhr Army” during the right-wing Kapp putsch.
Pilarski, Alfons, 1902-1977 aka Janson, aka Jan Rylski, aka Alfons Kompardt
A biography of Alfons Thomasz Pilarski, a German anarcho-syndicalist who took part in the German and Polish anarchist and anti-nazi movements.
Alfons Thomasz Pilarski (alias Kompardt) was born in Upper Silesia, a part of Germany with a 30% minority of Poles, on 6th July 1902, the son of a working class family in Leschnitz near Stehlitz.
1921-1944: The crushing of the FAUD by Hitler
An account of the decline and crushing of the anarcho-syndicalist trade union the FAUD in Hitler's Germany.
Anarchists against Hitler: The Underground FAUD in the Rhineland
An Introduction to Left Communism in Germany from 1914 to 1923
On the Origins and Early Years of Working Class Revolutionary Politics:
An Introduction to 'Left Communism' in Germany from 1914 to 1923
DG, 1994
Introduction and Overview
Kirschey, Helmut, 1913-2003
A short biography of Helmut Kirschey, who was probably the last surviving German anarchist to have fought with the Durruti Column in the Spanish Civil War.
Helmut Kirchey was born 22nd January 1913 in Elberfeld. His father was an active member of the Social Democratic Party, who died on the front in 1917. Hunger affected the family, with Helmut’s mother seeking work in France.
Jelinek, Wilhelm 'Willi', 1889-1952
Biographical information about Willi Jelinek, and information about the anarchist movement in post-war East Germany under Russian occupation.
The dark night of Willi Jelinek
Wilhelm Jelinek, or Willi as he was known, was born in Germany on Christmas day in 1889.
He lived in Zwickau, an industrial town in Saxony, in the former East Germany, not far from Chemnitz and the Czech border.
