Josef Peukert

Josef Peukert ( born January 22, 1855 in Albert Village, † March 3, 1910 in Chicago ) was an Austrian anarchist. He was best known for his autobiographical masterpiece Memories of a proletarian from the revolutionary workers' movement, even if those memories of Max Nettlau, were considered as highly - skeptical.

Life

Josef Peukert grew up in Northern Bohemia in poverty. From the age of six, he worked in his father's operation and the age of eleven he was taken out of school. When he was 16 he ripped off from home and was reflected in Germany with odd jobs through. Peukert participated in social-democratic workers' associations, and later became a communist anarchists. In exile in London Peukert was for employees Johann Most, which he also became radicalized and upon his return in the 1880s to a leader of the radical faction, as what he called the propaganda of the deed and terror against society and the State .. 1881 was Peukert editor of the Future, publisher of the Rebel, 1886-1893 editor of autonomy and after 1889 co-editor of the Anarchist. In the so-called civil war he was ( died in custody in 1896 ) because of his friendship with the police agent Theodor Reuss, Victor Dave for the arrest and subsequent sentencing to 15 years in prison by Johann Neve held responsible. From 1890 he worked with Emma Goldman for a few years in New York City.