Willy Huppertz
Reinhold Wilhelm "Willy" Huppertz (born November 18, 1904 in Düsseldorf , † March 15, 1978 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German anarchist who worked against the Nazi and communist state dictatorship. After 1945 he worked in the Soviet Zone and in 1948 founded the magazine Liberation in the Ruhr area .
Life
Willy Huppertz was a fitter . After a short period as a Christian socialist, he turned to atheism and joined FAUD and AAUE in the mid-1920s , where he became politically active. As an anarcho-communist and -syndicalist he became active in the context of the magazine Proletarischer Zeitgeist published in Zwickau . With the rise of the Nazis, he was arrested and interrogated for a few weeks. Around September 1940 he was arrested again and on July 20, 1944, as a reaction to the bomb attack against Hitler, he was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he managed to survive despite the reduced food rations.
After the war, Willy Huppertz refused a permanent position in the union on the basis of anarchist principles and re-established contacts between the few survivors in the Ruhr area and the Russian-occupied zone. In 1947, Huppertz published the Zwickau circular, edited by Wilhelm Jelinek in 1946 , which appeared until 1948. Jelinek sent him money for a duplicating machine and a list of Zeitgeist subscribers , and Huppertz founded the magazine Befreiung in Essen in 1948 . He acted as its editor until 1973 and then handed it over to a group of young activists in Cologne , where it appeared until 1978 with an edition of 1,500 copies. The author HJ Degen wrote that “Willi Huppertz, one of the most important anarchist figures after 1945, constant in view of the rebellious student movement and the first approaches of a new anarchism in the FRG and West Berlin: Unfortunately, the tendency towards anarchism after 1945 was zero in Germany Language area ".
Willy Huppertz showed great skepticism towards the new social movements , which he saw too close to Leninism . In 1950/51 he edited the unsuccessful magazines Der Freie Arbeiter and Vereinigte Blätter together with Rudolf Oestreich . In the late 1960s, he and Rudolf Krell prepared the International Congress of Anarchist Federations and wrote the preparatory bulletin for this meeting, which appeared in Paris from September 1966 to August 1968 and was edited by Guy Malouvier .
Fonts
- When the chains fall - three essays by an anarchist . Verlag Schwarze Kunst, Elmstein (published in the early 1970s).
- Capitalism or the community of free people . Agitation brochure on authority, pedagogy, class struggle, anarchism / Marxism. Self-published, Mülheim / R. (1970s).
- Capitalism or anarchism . Mühlheim: Selbstverlag, 1970. ( GVK )
literature
- Hans Jürgen Degen : The return of the anarchists. Anarchist attempts 1945 - 1979 . Verlag Edition AV , Lich 2009. ISBN 3-86841-015-5
- Günter Bartsch : Anarchism in Germany. 1945−1956 . Volume 1, pages 149 to 155. Fackelträger Verlag, Hanover 1972. ISBN 3-7716-1331-0
Web links
- Huppertz, Willy 1904–1978 from Nick Heath on libcom.org
- Brief information about the Zwickau circular in the database of German-speaking anarchism (DadA)
- Brief information about When the chains fall from W. Huppertz in the DadA.
- Brief information about United Leaves . Eds. W. Huppertz and R. Oestreich . In the DadA
Individual evidence
- ↑ See this: Hans J. Degen: The return of the anarchists
- ↑ See: Günter Bartsch: Anarchismus in Deutschland , Volume 1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huppertz, Willy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huppertz, Reinhold Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German anarchist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1978 |
| Place of death | Mülheim an der Ruhr |