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Helga Weber and Wolfgang Zucht (2004)

Wolfgang Zucht (born January 30, 1929 in Berlin , † September 17, 2015 in Kassel ) was a German publisher. Together with his wife Helga Weber (* 1935 ) he ran the Weber & Zucht publishing house in Kassel, which published literature on anarchism and libertarian movements.

Life

From 1958 Wolfgang Zucht was a member of the International of War Resisters . He was also a member of the Association of Conscientious Objectors (VK). In 1965 he became co-editor of the Direkten Aktion - papers for nonviolence and anarchism , published in Hanover , a forerunner of the anarcho - pacifist monthly magazine ' Graswurzelrevolution ', which was founded in 1972 and is still published today .

At the end of the 1960s, Helga Weber and Wolfgang Zucht lived in London , where they worked for four to five years, among other things, for War Resisters' International (WRI). In 1973 they returned to Germany, took part in the Grassroots Revolution (GWR) and, together with other people from the environment of the active newspaper makers, founded the Grassroots Workshop.

As grassroots workshop activists, Helga Weber and Wolfgang Zucht published the information service for non-violent organizers from July 1974 to December 1980 , which had previously been published by the non- violent action Betzdorf under a slightly different name. In the mid-1970s, Wolfgang Zucht was active in the anti-nuclear movement , in particular in non-violent actions and the campaign to refuse electricity against nuclear energy. As a co-initiator of the Federation of Nonviolent Action Groups , he took over the German and then the international coordination for the International Nonviolent March for Demilitarization in 1980/81 . In 1982 both left the grass roots workshop, which was continued in Göttingen and later in Cologne . From 1992 to 1995, Wolfgang Zucht was co-editor of the Graswurzelrevolution calendar and until the end of his life co-editor of the magazine Graswurzelrevolution.

Publications

• with Helga Weber: Disarmament or Revolution? Positions of the WRI . In: Antimilitarismus-Information , No. 10/1976, Vol. VI
• The Civil disobedience . In: Theo Hengesbach, Michael Schweitzer (Ed.): No nuclear power plant with our money! Refusal of electricity money as a non-violent resistance to nuclear energy . Dortmund 1977, pp. 17-24

literature

• Humanism and nonviolence (an interview with Helga Weber and Wolfgang Zucht) . In: Wolfram Beyer : Refuse military service - Pacifism currently. Libertarian and humanist positions. Oppo-Verlag, Berlin 2007
• For a non-violent, domineering society. Interviews with Helga Weber and Wolfgang Zucht (Verlag Weber & Zucht) . In: Bernd Drücke (Ed.): Yes! Anarchism. Lived utopia in the 21st century. Interviews and discussions . Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-87956-307-1 , pp. 114-146

Web links

• Wolfgang Zucht memorial page dadaweb
• Interview with Helga Weber and Wolfgang Zucht in the grassroots revolution , 2003