Kurt Wafner

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Kurt Wafner , original surname Wawrzyniak , (born November 25, 1918 in Berlin ; † March 10, 2007 ibid) was a German lecturer , author , anti-militarist and anarchist .

Life

At the age of thirteen Kurt Wafner became acquainted with anarchist literature and at fourteen he became a member of the FAUD- affiliated Free Workers' Youth (FAJ). During this time he visited the Anarchist Association Weißensee in Berlin, which was dissolved in 1934. This association was active in several Berlin districts and organized political campaigns, lectures on daily politics and anarchist theory as well as literature readings, museum and theater visits. Here he met Erich Mühsam and later Ernst Friedrich , founder of the Anti-War Museum and the libertarian writer Theodor Plivier . In the 1930s, Wafner was actively involved in a school strike because the Social Democratic and Jewish school director was dismissed. Wafner was expelled from school.

After the National Socialists came to power , the anarchists were able to meet publicly in a youth home for a few weeks. After the termination of the youth home, the meetings were held in private apartments. When this became too dangerous, the members met on wanderings in the great outdoors. Since it was a great risk to go hiking without authorization, they became a member of the Association of Brandenburg Hikers . This association, a large organization of local history researchers, was tolerant of new members and a kind of catchment basin for left-wing political and anti-fascist groups. From 1938, when it was compulsory, many were drafted into the army and Wafner entered the labor service in 1939, just as he was about to start at the engineering school; he had passed the entrance exam. Despite his poor eyesight, he was written kv (war usable) and came to an artillery unit in Frankfurt / Oder. After a renewed examination by an ophthalmologist, he was then written to gvH (garrison usable home) and transferred to the office. In 1943 he made another attempt to be written unfit and was given the note avH (home for work) because of his poor eyesight.

Kurt Wafner saw the end of the war in Berlin and was horrified that many National Socialists came back to power.

Kurt Wafner's manuscripts and features , mainly through Klabund , have been preserved in the German Broadcasting Archive in Babelsberg .

Works

  • Simply classic” - and more. Epilogue to Schall und Rauch (reprint of the 13 cabaret programs from December 1919 to February). Book publisher der Morgen, Berlin, 1985

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Article about Kurt Wafner's book My Life as a Book Friend and Anarchist in: Graswurzelrevolution No. 262, October 2001. Retrieved March 15, 2009
  2. Interview with and quotations from Kurt Wafner from www.syndikalismusforschung.info. Retrieved October 28, 2009