Jean-Louis Pindy
Jean-Louis Pindy (born June 3, 1840 in Brest , France , † June 24, 1917 in La Chaux-de-Fonds , Switzerland ) was a French communard and a member of the International Workers' Association .
Life
Internationalist and Communard
Jean-Louis Pindy worked as a carpenter in Brest and joined the local section of the International Workers' Association there in 1867. In the same year Pindy moved to Paris and participated in the workers' organizations there. He was involved in a strike supported by the International. Pindy took part as a delegate at the Brussels Congress in 1868 and at the Basel Congress of the International in 1869. In 1870 he was twice sentenced to one year in prison for his membership in the International in France.
On September 4, Pindy was released from prison after the proclamation of the Republic and was a member of the Republican Central Committee of the twenty arrondissements of Paris during the siege of Paris. On March 18, he took part in the storming of the Paris City Hall and was elected to the communal council of the 3rd arrondissement. During the bloody week of May , Pindy commanded the troops in the Palais des Tuileries and gave orders to set fire to the Paris City Hall. After the defeat of the commune, Pindy was able to hide with his future wife for a year and then fled to Switzerland. In France he was sentenced to death in contumacia .
In exile in Switzerland
In Switzerland, Pindy met James Guillaume and became a member of the Jura Federation . In 1872 he took part in the founding congress of the anti-authoritarian international and took part regularly in the congresses that followed. Pindy wrote for the Bulletin de la Fédération jurassienne and administered the fund for the deported Communards. Together with Bakunin and Italian anarchists, Pindy was involved in planning the failed uprising in Bologna in 1874. Between 1876 and 1877 Pindy was secretary of the Federal Office of the International and helped reorganize the International in France. In 1877 he co-founded the newspaper L'Avant-Garde .
After the fall of the Jura Federation, Pindy helped found La Libre Pensée , a French organization of the free-thinker movement.
Jean-Louis Pindy was the inventor of the Paindy , a Beignet -Gericht, the striking workers has been widely distributed. The Paindy is a deep-fried dumpling filled with minced meat and vegetables or with an apple filling.
literature
- Bernard Noël: Dictionnaire de la Commune . Flammarion, Paris 1978
- Mario Vuilleumier: Horlogers de l'anarchisme . Payot, Lausanne 1988
- Florian Eitel: Anarchist watchmaker in Switzerland. Microhistorical global history of the beginnings of the anarchist movement in the 19th century. Transcript, Bielefeld 2018
Web links
- Biography of Jean-Louis Pindy at libcom.org (en.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pindy, Jean-Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French communard and anarchist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brest , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1917 |
| Place of death | La Chaux-de-Fonds , Switzerland |