Helmut Rudiger

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Helmut Rüdiger (born January 22, 1903 in Frankenberg , † June 1966 in Madrid ) was a German author and representative of anarcho-syndicalism .

Life

Rüdiger came from a liberal family. As a teenager he joined the Wandervogel movement and in 1922 became a member of the Syndicalist-Anarchist Youth of Germany and the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD). Rüdiger studied German and art history. Together with Gerhard Wartenberg and Ferdinand Götze, he founded a discussion group at the University of Leipzig , consisting of young workers and young academics.

As a staunch anti-communist, his experiences in Spain led him to anti-totalitarianism. He studied the works of Gustav Landauer in detail , which strengthened his anarchist-syndicalist theory and practice, as well as his interest in the labor movement. In 1925, during his studies in Munich, he began to write for the magazines " Junge Anarchisten " and " Der Syndikalist ".

Three years later, Rüdiger gave up his studies because his family no longer supported him financially because of his political views. In Berlin he later took over the editorial management of Der Syndikalist , for which Augustin Souchy , Max Winkler, Gerhard Wartenberg and Fritz Köster also worked, and of Die Internationale (2nd episode). During his time in Berlin, he met Erich Mühsam , Artur Streiter and Rudolf Rocker , among others . In 1931, Rüdiger was editor of the magazine Reflection and Aufbruch , later Werner Henneberger took over this position from the guild of libertarian book lovers . For this book club he also gave lectures on The War and Literature and on the art of Frans Masereel . He also corresponded with the anarcho-syndicalist Willi Paul . Due to internal conflicts in the FAUD and the emerging National Socialism in Germany, Rüdiger went to Spain in 1932. There he became the responsible secretary of the anarchist International Workers' Association and wrote for the anarchist exile press. As a politically persecuted person, he headed the foreign information service for the Spanish syndicalists. Six years later he emigrated to Sweden; his motivation was the smashing of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) by the Stalinist-influenced communism in Spain. He described his anti-communism with the words, " Since 1937 I have hated the communists as my real mortal enemies " (quoted from Rudolf Mühland). Together with Heinrich Bergmann, Rudolf Rocker and Fritz Linow, Rüdiger was involved in the Federation of Liberal Socialists after 1945 ; the magazine Die Freie Gesellschaft was published there between 1949 and 1953 . Rüdiger worked as an author for the magazine Opposition und Ziel in the early 1960s .

Together with Albert de Jong , Arthur Lehning and Augustin Souchy, he edited the press service of the International Antimilitarist Commission (IAK). Helmut Rüdiger wrote under the pseudonym “D. Rodriguez “In 1966 he died of a heart attack in Spain.

Fonts

  • Socialism and parliamentarism . AHDE-Verlag, Berlin 1979. ISBN 3-8136-0013-0
  • Federalism . A contribution to the history of freedom . AHDE-Verlag, Berlin 1979. ISBN 3-8136-0001-7
  • The Spanish Revolution II. What are the CNT and FAI? (The IAA declaration of principles is attached), Anarchist Texts No. 27, Libertad Verlag, Berlin 1982.
  • Rudolf Rocker and the Jewish Labor Movement . Published in the journal Die Freie Gesellschaft , 1951, Volume 2, No. 22. [1]
  • Socialism will be free , Oppo-Verlag, Berlin 1991. ISBN 3-926880-02-3

literature

  • FAU-Bremen (ed.): The CNT as a vanguard of international anarcho-syndicalism. The Spanish Revolution 1936 - reviews and biographies (with many contributions by Helmut Rüdiger, among others about George Orwell and Carlo Rosselli), Lich / Hessen 2006, ISBN 3-936049-69-6 (from 2007: ISBN 978-3-936049-69- 5 )
  • Helge Döhring: So that spring will come in Bavaria! The syndicalist labor movement in southern Bavaria from 1914 to 1933 . Publisher Edition AV , Lich / Hessen. ISBN 978-3-936049-84-8 . Describes u. a. the years of H. Rüdiger in Munich and contains a short portrait.
  • Hartmut Rübner, Freedom and Bread. The Free Workers' Union of Germany. A Study of the History of Anarcho-Syndicalism . For H. Rüdiger see pages: 84f., 147f., 154, 179f., 206, 213, 218, 249, 251, 262, 269, 271, 280, 286f., 291f. Libertad Verlag , Potsdam 1994. ISBN 3-922226-21-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography with notes on archived letters, etc. a. with Willi Paul as well as documents by and about Helmut Rüdiger at the International Institute for Social History (IISG). Retrieved February 15, 2009
  2. ↑ Author: Rudolf Mühland in "Free Workers Union Dusseldorf" of 3 March 2007. biography of H. Ruediger. Retrieved February 16, 2009
  3. ↑ See the short biography in the IISG
  4. ↑ Brief information . In the database of German-speaking anarchism . Processing status: April 29, 1998. Accessed August 11, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Rudiger, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES D. Rodriguez (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and anarcho-syndicalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenberg
DATE OF DEATH June 1966
Place of death Madrid