Publishing house Der Syndikalist

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The publishing house Der Syndikalist was founded in December 1919 and was directly connected to the previous publishing activities of Fritz Kater (Fritz Kater Verlag).

history

Before the First World War, the publisher Fritz Kater (1861–1945) had already published books and magazines for the Free Association of German Trade Unions under the name “Fritz Kater Verlag”, with the addition “Der Syndikalist”.

From 1919 the name of the publisher "Der Syndikalist" was adopted, the managing director was F. Kater. During the Weimar Republic , the publisher was one of the most important publishers and directly connected to the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD) , among other things because of the number of copies of brochures, books and magazines . The publisher's offer was politically aligned with syndicalism and anarchism and primarily offered anarcho-syndicalists and anarchists of all kinds political space. The magazine Der Syndikalist , published by the publisher , had a circulation of 120,000 copies in 1920. In 1924 the circulation had dropped to 25,000.

Logo of the magazine

In 1929 there were organizational changes to the publishing house at FAUD. As the successor to the publishing house Der Syndikalist, ASY Verlags GmbH was created, basically just a renaming of the publisher's name. In addition, the book club Gilde Freiheitlicher Bücherfreunde (GfB). Fritz Kater's person was not only closely connected with the Fritz Kater Verlag, Verlag der Syndikalist, ASY Verlag, but also with the GfB.

When the ASY publishing house was founded, the 70-year-old Kater resigned from the management, although he still helped with shipping. In 1931 Helmut Rüdiger took over the management of the publishing house. The reason for the renaming of the publisher The Syndikalist in ASY-Verlag may have been inflation and the decline in the number of members of the FAUD. As an example, Corinna Kaiser cites the information from Dieter Nelles and Ulrich Klan , who name 143,106 members for the Essen district for 1921 and 29,865 for 1924. After all, the FAUD members were the most important buyers of the publisher's offers. On March 5, 1933, the FAUD was banned and the mailing lists and the stock of brochures and books were confiscated. The ASY publishing house was continued in Barcelona in 1936.

Publishing publications (selection)

  • Peter Kropotkin : Conquering the Bread, translated by Bernhard Kampffmeyer. Berlin, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1924.
  • Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis : Francisco Ferrer . Berlin, 1920.
  • Karl Roche: What do the syndicalists want? Berlin, 1919.
  • Michael Bakunin : Collected Works in 3 Volumes, Ed .: Erwin Rholfs, Berlin 1921–1923.
  • Augustin Souchy : How do workers and peasants live in Russia and the Ukraine? (Travel report from April to October 1920), Berlin 1921.
  • Fritz Kater: The development of the German trade union movement. Lecture from January 17, 1921 in the Berlin labor exchange. Berlin 1921.
  • Max Nettlau : The Revolutionary Actions of the Italian Proletariat and the Role of Errico Malatesta . Berlin 1922.
  • Emma Goldman : The causes of the decline of the Russian Revolution, Berlin 1922.
  • Robert Reitzel , The Devil's Collected Works, Issues 1 to 9 in four brochures. Berlin 1923.
  • Bart de Ligt : Confession to the devil ... (1927).
  • Alexander Berkman : The deed. Anarchist prison memories. Afterword by Robert Reitzel, 1927.

Series: Poets and Rebels

  • Erich Mühsam : Alarm. Manifestos from 20 Years (Volume 1), 1925.
  • Kurt Kläber : Outrage! Up! Poems, sketches, travelogues (Volume 2), 1925.
  • John Henry Mackay : Storm. 7th shortened edition (Poets and Rebels, Volume 3). Total circulation: 22,000. 1925
  • Rudolf Rocker : From the other bank (Volume 4), 1926.
  • Samuel Lewin : Demons of the Blood. A vision. Translated from Yiddish by Ruben Beatus (Volume 5), 1926.
  • Rudolf Rocker: The Six (Volume 7), 1928.

further reading

Books:

  • Hartmut Rübner , Freedom and Bread. The Free Workers' Union of Germany. A Study of the History of Anarcho-Syndicalism . About Fritz Kater, page: 15, 28, 29, 30 f., 60, 67, 127, 154, 162, 171, 212, 221, 267, 269, 297. About the magazine Der Syndikalist , page: 12, 20, 39 f., 51, 56 f., 65, 74, 79, 82 f., 86 f., 118, 121, 135, 147, 150, 154, 160, 173–176, 182, 186, 188, 195, 233, 250, 264, 267, 280, 281 f., 288, 291. Libertad Verlag , Potsdam 1994. ISBN 3-922226-21-3 .
  • Ulrich Klan, Dieter Nelles: There is still a flame alive. Rhenish anarcho-syndicalists in the Weimar Republic and in fascism . Nevertheless publisher , Grafenau – Döffingen 1990. ISBN 3-922209-72-6 .
  • Helge Döhring: The press of the syndicalist labor movement in Germany 1918 to 1933 . Edition Syfo 1, Moers 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810846-8-9 .

Magazines:

  • Corinna Kaiser: The Kater Group - A Contribution to the Syndicalist Publishing History . In: Schwarzer Faden No. 49 (1994). Available online
  • Rudolf Rocker : Fritz Kater - A picture of life . In: The free thought, as a continuation in issues 8 to 11, Wiesbaden 1948.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Rübner: Freedom and bread. The Free Workers' Union of Germany. A Study of the History of Anarcho-Syndicalism.
  2. ↑ Schwarzer Faden , No. 49, 1994.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Klan, Dieter Nelles: There is still a flame alive.
  4. ^ Corinna Kaiser in Schwarzer Faden No. 49, 1994.