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Fritz Kater (born December 19, 1861 in Barleben , † May 20, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German trade unionist , publisher , anarcho-syndicalist and editor of the newspaper Der Syndikalist .

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As a trained bricklayer , he joined a construction workers' association in Magdeburg as early as 1883, and in 1887 he himself founded a trade association for bricklayers in Barleben. In 1889 he was imprisoned for two months for holding an illegal meeting. Kater was a co-founder of the Magdeburger Volksstimme , a social democratic newspaper that came into being shortly after the Socialist Law came to an end. The editors were Hans Müller, Paul Kampffmeyer and Fritz Köster . In 1892 Kater moved to Berlin, where he worked tirelessly for the professional organization of bricklayers and as a socialist agitator. Among other things, he wrote for the magazine Reflection and Awakening .

Kater came from the social democratic tradition, but left the SPD in 1908 . He was a founding member of the Free Association of German Trade Unions (FVdG), which stood up for revolutionary syndicalism, and the editor of the organ of the FVdG Die Einigkeit ; later he became chairman of the Berlin business commission of the Free Workers' Union of Germany from December 1919 to 1930. In December 1918 the first edition of the newspaper Der Syndikalist appeared in Berlin; until 1929 he headed the publishing house of the same name. He was also one of the co-founders of the International Workers' Association (IAA) in 1922. Kater was almost always chairman of the business commission of the syndicalist movement in Germany for almost 30 years, until he resigned his office of his own accord to "younger comrades" like he said to make room. His death in May 1945 was caused by a dud (bazooka).

From 1925 he was responsible for the press service of the International Workers' Association (published in Berlin, Madrid, Amsterdam and Stockholm; around 200 issues appeared from 1923 to 1939 (?)) And as the publisher of the press service for the anarcho-syndicalist International.

Works

  • Correspondence between Kater and Nettlau (compare Max Nettlau estate in IISG Amsterdam)
  • Free Association of German Trade Unions (FVdG) (A Brief History of the German Social Revolutionary Trade Union Movement), Berlin, Verlag Fritz Kater (from 1919 Verlag Der Syndikalist ), 1912, 32 pp.
  • The development of the German trade union movement. Lecture from January 17, 1921. Berlin, Verlag Der Syndikalist, Fritz Kater, 1920, 29 pp.
  • The dogma of patriotism / international law. Berlin, Verlag Die Einigkeit, Fritz Kater, 1907, 24 pp.
  • A soldier's letter. Berlin, Verlag Die Einigkeit, Fritz Kater, 1909, 12 pp.
  • The labor exchanges of syndicalism. Berlin, Ed. Fritz Kater, undated, 47 pp.
  • The program of the Free Association of German Trade Unions and the resolution on strikes and lockouts together with the reasons (an educational pamphlet). Berlin, Verlag Der Syndikalist, Fritz Kater, 1908

literature

  • Rudolf Rocker : A Life for Revolutionary Syndicalism. Biography of Fritz Kater, Hamburg 1985 (new edition), first published in: Der Freie Gedanke, No. 8-11 / 1948.
  • Corinna Kaiser: The “Kater-Konzer.n” A contribution to the (anarcho-) syndicalist publishing history. In: Schwarzer Faden , No. 49, 15th year, issue 2/94, pp. 62–69.

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personal data
SURNAME Hangover, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anarcho-syndicalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Bar life
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1945
Place of death Berlin