Augustin Souchy

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| birth_name = Augustin Souchy Bauer

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|08|28}}

| birth_place = Ratibor, German Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|01|01|1892|08|28}}

| death_place = Munich, West Germany

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| occupation = Educational advisor to the ilo

| notable_works = {{lang|de|Die tragische Woche im Mai 1937}}

| era = 20th century

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Augustin Souchy Bauer{{cite web| url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21553616?versionId=25838615| title=With the peasants of Aragon| publisher=National Library of Australia| accessdate=January 23, 2013}} (28 August 1892 – 1 January 1984) was a Silesian anarchist, antimilitarist, labor union official and journalist. He traveled widely and wrote extensively about the Spanish Civil War and intentional communities. He was born in Ratibor, in what was then the German Empire.{{cite web| title=Augustin Souchy Papers| publisher=International Institute of Social History|hdl = 10622/ARCH01364 |url=https://search.iisg.amsterdam/Record/ARCH01364}}

Biography

In 1915, during World War I, he emigrated to Sweden to avoid military service,{{Cite web |date=2009-04-12 |title=Augustin SOUCHY |url=http://anarchie23.centerblog.net/6582829-Augustin-SOUCHY |access-date=2023-08-21 |website=Centerblog |language=fr}} being exiled by the Swedish government two years later for anti-militaristic propaganda. From then on, he traveled throughout the world returning to Germany once and living in Spain, South America and France at different times. He was very active in the anarchist movement wherever he lived and worked together with many famous anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin and Rudolf Rocker.

Described as the most prominent Silesian to have fought in the Spanish Civil War,{{cite web |last1=Szaja |first1=Adam |title=„Śląsk zbuntowany”, czyli hiszpańskie dzieje dwustu śmiałków. Fragment książki |url=https://smakksiazki.pl/slask-zbuntowany-czyli-hiszpanskie-dzieje-dwustu-smialkow-fragment-ksiazki/ |website=smakksiazki.pl |language=Pl |date=17 October 2019}} he participated in Confederación Nacional del Trabajo and in the Spanish Revolution during the conflict. His work "The Tragic Week in May" is one of the few first hand sources that exist on the May Days of 1937 in Barcelona. After the war he was arrested in France but managed to escape to Mexico.

File:Mitin Contra La Guerra 1936.jpg, listing "Agustin Souchy" as a speaker]]

He spent the rest of his life working together with syndicalist and anarchist organizations and remained active as a journalist. He died in Munich on January 1, 1984.

Bibliography

These are Souchy's works that have been translated into English:

[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/augustin-souchy-the-tragic-week-in-may The Tragic Week in May], CNT-FAI, 1937 (account of sectarian violence in Spain during the Spanish Revolution)
[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/augustin-souchy-with-the-peasants-of-aragon With the Peasants of Aragon], Cienfuegos Press, 1982 (Souchy's account of Spanish peasant cooperatives)
Beware! Anarchist!, Charles H. Kerr, Chicago, 1992 (Souchy's autobiography)

For a more complete listing, see the German Wikipedia article at Augustin Souchy.

References

External links

[https://search.socialhistory.org/Record/ARCH01364 Souchy papers] and [http://hdl.handle.net/10622/COLL00164 audio collection] at the International Institute of Social History
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160305232721/http://anarchyisorder.org/cd The Tragic Week in May]
[http://www.kelderuitgeverij.nl/?p=f&u=6 Photos of Augustin Souchy]
{{YouTube|YJtomKNCEj8|Documentary film "Die lange Hoffnung"}}
{{YouTube|d89Pt8krDhs|Souchy addresses the IWA-AIT Congress in Madrid in 1931}}
[http://www.theoryandpractice.org.uk/publication/peasants-aragon] at Theory and Practice