Wilhelm Hugo Klink

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Wilhelm Hugo Klink (born February 1, 1875 in Affaltrach ; † June 26, 1922 in Böckingen ) was a German anarchist activist, trained brush maker and playwright .

Career

Around the party congress in Wroclaw 6. – 12. In October 1895 he switched from the opposition of the young people of the Social Democrats to the communist anarchists and tried, in part, from Heilbronn to found a southern German anarchist federation. Along with Gustav Landauer, he is one of the most important southern German revisionist anarchists.

From 1896 he published six issues of freedom (an anarchist agitation paper) in Heilbronn .

In 1899 he lived in Bietigheim and pushed for the coordination of anarchists in the German Reich in cooperation with other parties and trade.

In 1900 he realized that he should focus solely on building a particular anarchist organization. He wrote:

“Let's do it! In there, out in front of the public and collaborated in such a way that we come closer to our ideal. First of all, the misconceived individualism must be dropped and the comrades must organize themselves and organize the organization in such a way that it does not run counter to our views. The task of this free association must be to ensure agitation, enlightenment and education among the comrades and to bring them to a higher spiritual culture. Economic struggle organizations must be created and organized locally; the rigid union centralism, which is an obstacle to the movement, must be broken ”

- Kling : Exhibition text “History of Anarchism in Ludwigsburg and Surroundings” April 11, 2017 / in news from the FdA groups

Wilhelm Klink proposed the establishment of four associations for the entire German Empire, covering southern Germany, Rhineland-Westphalia, Silesia and northern Germany (including Berlin).

Anarchists in Berlin, however, rejected the need for an organization that Klink was dedicated to. At an anarchist meeting in Württemberg in the summer of 1900, which was attended by ten anarchists from four cities, the South German Federation was founded. In addition, an agitation committee was set up in Bietigheim to work towards the development of a movement of free trade unions and cooperatives. By the end of 1900, a group of ten cities had joined the South German Federation. In addition, a trade union association was founded, in which Klink temporarily acted as chairman.

He was mainly active in Württemberg, temporarily escaping the German Reich because of an alleged moral offense.

In 1910 he withdrew from anarchism and lived in Böckingen.

On March 16, 1911, Wilhelm Klink and 13 comrades met in the Gasthof Zum Sandhof in the then still independent community of Böckingen and founded the Heilbronn settlement cooperative, the nucleus of today's housing association GEWO.

In May 1912 he wrote a drama from the Peasants' War in four acts in honor of the Black Courtwoman , which was performed several times in Heilbronn. - About Klink, who was subject to surveillance by the Political Police and of which a police file still exists in the Potsdam State Archives (signature: Pr. Br. Rep. 30 Berlin C Pol. Pres., Title 95, Sect. 8 Lit. K, No. 40, Order No. 16292).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth after entry of Wilhelm Klink in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn City Archives , contemporary history collection, signature ZS-11725
  2. ^ "Wilhelm Hugo Klink", Bavaria in transition: The revolution of 1918, its conditions, its course and its consequences, 1969, R. Oldenburg Munich and Vienna in the Google book search by Karl Bosl (ed.)
  3. ↑ German Anarchist Communism from the 1890s to the 1930s: the AFD and the FKAD, [1]
  4. ↑ Dieter Fricke, Rudolf Knaack, documents from secret archives: Overviews of the Berlin political police on the general situation of the social democratic and anarchist movement, 1890-1906, H. Böhlau, 1983 - Anarchism - 588, p. 217
  5. ↑ Housing Association , GEWO, [2]
  6. ↑ June 26, dies at the age of 47, Wilhelm Klink, owner of a real estate business, founder and director of the settlement cooperative of the Federal Association for Social Activities. Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn: 1922–1933, City Archives, 1986 p. 36
  7. ^ Hans Franke, catalog for the 1989 exhibition in the Heilbronn city library, exhibition and catalog: Günther Emig, [3]

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personal data
SURNAME Klink, Wilhelm Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brush maker and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Affaltrach
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1922
Place of death Boeckingen