Augustin Souchy Papers

Period  1942-1983
Total size   8.25 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Ratibor, Germany 1892, died in Munich 1984; anarchist, publicist; moved to Sweden to escape conscription in 1915; expelled from Sweden because of his antimilitarist propaganda in 1917; returned to Germany in 1919; active with Rudolf Rocker in the Freie Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands (FAUD), editor of its organ Der Syndikalist 1922-1933; participated in the Second Congress of the COMINTERN in 1920, representing informally the FAUD; one of the three secretaries of the International Working Men's Association (IWMA); travelled for the IWMA in South America and Spain; lived in exile in France from 1933; active in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), travelling all over Europe; after the Spanish Civil War interned in France; escaped to Mexico in 1942; returned to Germany in 1961; worked as teacher and organization expert in Madagascar for the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) 1962 and in Latin America and Ethiopia for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) 1963-1966; travelled as a journalist all over the world; after his retirement freelance publicist in Munich.

Content

Extensive international correspondence with various persons 1942-1983, including Achim v. Borries, Boris Goldenberg, Pantelej Gumarov, Georg Hepp, Georg Kriesel, Andreas Mytze, Rose Pesotta, Max Piechula, Alfons Tomasz Pilarski, Otto Reimers, Eugen Relgis, Rudolf Rocker, Josef Stochloss, Peter Thoma, Ingeborg Weber, Alfred Weiland; with publishers and newspapers, universities and research centers, political parties, labour and/or anarchist organizations, broadcasting corporations, the International Institute of Social History (IISH), etc.; personal documents; typescripts of published and unpublished works by Souchy including his memoirs `Attention Anarchist!' and `Ideal und Wirklichkeit'; files on the International Labour Office (ILO), the Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC), the War Resisters' International (WRI), the Föderation Freiheitlicher Sozialisten (FFS), the Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation (SAC), etc.; files concerning Buenaventura Durruti and Traven Torsvan; files on different countries visited by Souchy; documents on interviews with and lectures and book reviews by Souchy; collection of press clippings on the political and economic situation in countries all over the world; printed material.