Communard

With communard (from the French. Communard ) of the residents is a municipality designated in the sense of a community that has come together under a common concept. The term is usually not used specifically for genders and is only rarely used in the feminine form ( communin ).

Communards were first called the members of the Paris Commune , the revolutionary Paris city council that tried from March to May 1871 to introduce a socialist government in Paris . Then Adolphe Thiers had the commune put down in the so-called “Bloody May Week”. Around 30,000 Communards fell victim to the fighting and the mass executions that followed.

At the end of the 1960s, Communards also called themselves the members of civil communities in Germany who tried out new forms of social coexistence. Some municipalities also came into the public eye, such as Municipality I and Municipality 2 in Berlin.