Gustav Landauer Biographical Information

Born: April 7, 1870; Karlsruhe, Germany

Died: in 1919 "In a prison courtyard an officer stepped up and struck him across the face, the signal for a savage masacar. Set upon by the troops, Landauer was beaten with trutcheons and rifle butts, kicked, stomped and trampled upon. 'Kill me, then!' he exclaimed.'to think that you are human beings!" At that he was shot to death. His body was stripped and thrown into a wash house." (Anarchist Portraits, Avrich Paul)

Larry Gambone, "For Community: The Communitarian Anarchism Of Gustav Landauer"

James Horrox, Biography of Landauer