Otto Reimers

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Otto Reimers (born September 17, 1902 in Grambek ; † October 22, 1984 in Laufenburg ) was a German author , magazine editor and anarcho-syndicalist .

Life

As the oldest of five siblings, Reimers had to start working after finishing school; he did this with forest workers and farmers to ease the financial situation of his family.

In the 1920s Reimers became active in the anti-authoritarian labor movement. In 1926, together with Karl Matzen, Karl Roche and Ernst Fiering, he founded the block of anti-authoritarian revolutionaries in Hamburg , consisting of anarcho-syndicalists, anarchists, unionists and individual anarchists. Speakers at the meetings included a. Pierre Ramus , Ernst Friedrich , Helmut Rüdiger and Rudolf Rocker . Together with Paul Schöß he took over the distribution of the journal Proletarischer Zeitgeist (1922-1933) from the General Workers' Union (AAU) in 1926 and worked on the journal Die Freie Gesellschaft . After the Nazis came to power , Reimers was forced to stop working for magazines. During the Second World War Reimers had a civil engineering company; In total, he had worked in a civil engineering company for 42 years, in recent years as a site manager.

In 1959 the Union of Free Socialists and Anarchists was founded at an anarchist congress in Neviges , Reimers being one of the co-initiators of the congress. He was a member of the Federation of Liberal Socialists (FfS).

After the end of the war Reimers was active as the editor of the first anarchist magazine in Germany, Mahnruf ; published a few weeks after the end of the war (May to December 1945). Reimers wanted to contribute to the establishment of a new anarchist movement with the warning call . The hoped-for response did not materialize, however. The magazine appeared illegally from 1933 to 1934, also edited by Reimers. He was also the editor of the periodical Information , Anarchist Thoughts and Reflections on History, Literature and Contemporary Politics; together with Heinrich Freitag and Walter Stöhr (1956–1961). From 1955 to 1959 he was also the publisher of the German-language, international anarchist newsletter CRIA (Commission de Relations Internationales Anarchistes). His magazine New Beginning (1969–1971) brought contributions from a left-liberal, democratic and free socialist perspective . The publication Zeitgeist - edited by Reimers - for social progress, free socialism, culture and current events appeared from 1971 to 1974. It later merged with the journal Akratie published by Heiner Koechlin , in which the anarcho-syndicalist Willi Paul also published.

In addition to his work as an editor, he was also the author of numerous articles. Wolfgang Haug published an obituary for Otto Reimers, The political commitment was his calling and obligation , in the magazine Schwarzer Faden (No. 16, April 1984, page 56).

start new

From 1969 to 1971, the Walter Stöhr publishing house published the anarchist magazine new beginning , published by Otto Reimers in Hamburg. The subtitle read: “Contributions to contemporary history, culture and politics from left-liberal, democratic and free socialist sentiments; a publication by anti-authoritarian socialists ”. The paper was presented with the words: “Represent humanistic-democratic socialism. Opposes the hereticization of the word and worldview of anarchism ”. And: "The future must no longer belong to violence, but to the coexistence and coexistence of all people". new begin appeared bimonthly with a print run of 600 copies. The successor was the magazine Zeitgeist . In 1960 the same anarchist publication was starting a new edited by Karl Blauert in Iserlohn. The Information and Liberation journals should be merged with a new one . Due to internal disagreements at the Anarchist Congress in Neviges, the project was discontinued and implemented by Reimers in 1969 while continuing to start new .

Works

  • Revolt against education, texts from Proletarischer Zeitgeist (1931-1932) , compiled by the Proletarischer Zeitgeist Group Pirna, 1932, 67 pages
  • From the age of “humanity” from 1927-28, texts from Proletarischer Zeitgeist ; compiled by AAU-E Freital, 1928, 60 pp.
  • Citizens' Initiative Movement , in: Akratie No. 8, 1977; Black thread No. 9/1982
  • Warning call - resistance in the Third Reich . In: Schwarzer Faden No. 3, 1981
  • Oskar Kanehl - a councilor communist poet , in: Schwarzer Faden No. 15, August 1984 (last publication)

further reading

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also: Ulcus Molle Info-Dienst, pages 63 and 93
  2. ↑ See on this: Günter Bartsch, Anarchismus in Deutschland . Volume 2/3, pages 150 to 153, 165, 175
personal data
SURNAME Reimers, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, magazine editor and anarcho-syndicalist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Grambek
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1984
Place of death Laufenburg