17:00 - 19:00
Färberei, Kassel
+++ updated from 15.07.2022 – the event has to be canceled due to illness, we are trying to find an alternative date +++
“I went to the syndicalist trade union organization at the time, since I found the freedom here most pronounced against any compulsion, oppression and despotism. She did not advocate anonymous political freedom, as they generally in the state- and partisan political life was expressed, but for the freedom of personality, in which man has his very own rights in the economic, was able to bring political and cultural life to bear with his union organizing power.” Willi Paul (FAUD Kassel)
In the early 1920s, a local group of anarcho-syndicalists was founded in Kassel Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD). It did not have any significant roots in the Kassel labor movement. Nevertheless, towards the end of the Weimar Republic, she managed to exert considerable influence on the unemployed movement in Kassel. She took part in the anti-fascist struggle in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism. Inside the illegal structure of the FAUD of the year 1933 Kassel FAUD members played an important role. Willi Paul and Fred Schröder from the Kasseler FAUD also fought against Franco in Spain. All members of the Kassel FAUD were victims of National Socialist repression and/or went into exile.
In the lecture by Jürgen Mümken, the history and struggles of the Kassel local group are traced, the focus will be on the anti-fascist struggle.
Friday, 15.7. / 17 Clock / Färberei