Werner Henneberger

Werner Henneberger (born November 4, 1904 in Lübeck , † January 14, 1977 in Berlin ) was a German clerk , architect , social democrat and anarcho-syndicalist .

Life

Werner Henneberger lived in Magdeburg in the 1920s ; he completed an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk and later worked as an architect. At the beginning of the 1930s he moved to Berlin, where he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 . After his release, he was able to work as an advertising manager during the National Socialist dictatorship.

Act

In the mid-1920s, Henneberger was a member of the anarchist propaganda group Sudenburg and the anarcho-syndicalist union Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD). At various FAUD congresses, in 1927 and 1930, he appeared as a delegate from the Free Association of All Professions in Magdeburg . In 1931 he was editor of the anarchist magazine Reflection and Aufbruch and worked for FAUD in several functions. In the early 1930s he worked in the Guild of Freedom Book Friends (GfB) and in 1931 took over the leadership of the GfB. He was also active in the community of proletarian free thinkers (GpF). After the Second World War he participated in the Federation of Liberal Socialists and in the mid-1950s in the Working Group of Free Spiritual Associations .

Henneberger remained connected to his anarcho-syndicalist worldview when he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the German Employees' Union (DAG). In Berlin he kept in touch with a group of friends around Rudolf Rocker and other liberal socialists .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Unruh: Henneberger, Werner. (Short biography on the website of the “ Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon ” research group at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg ; last accessed on December 1, 2011)