Otto Reimers Papers

Period 1932-1983
Total size   2.4 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Hamburg 1902, died in Laufenburg, Baden 1984; anarchist; became involved in the Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union (AAU) in Hamburg in the early 1920s; member of the group around the antiauthoritarian socialist paper Proletarischer Zeitgeist 1922-1933; became anarchist around 1930; active in the anarchist resistance in the 1930s; one of the most active anarchists after the Second World War; published the German edition of CRIA 1955-1959, partly with André Prudhommeaux; editor of Information 1955-1962; the last paper he edited was Neues Beginnen/Zeitgeist 1969-1978; contributed to many other anarchist periodicals, such as Die Freie Gesellschaft 1949-1953, Der Freie Arbeiter and Befreiung from 1948 onwards; German delegate to the International Anarchist Congress in London in 1958.

Content

Correspondence with Günther Bartsch 1971-1982, Augustin Souchy 1968-1982, Uwe Timm 1955-1982, Alfred Weiland 1967-1972, Kurt Zube (pseudonym K.H.Z. Solneman) and the Mackay-Gesellschaft 1957-1981 and others; manuscripts and notes relating to lectures given at international congresses; press clippings, articles, typescripts and other documents concerning anarchism in European countries, in particular in Germany and documentation concerning Nazism and the Second World War.

Processing information

List made by R. de Jong in 1984, edited by Ed Kool in 2007