Carl Windhoff (1882-1940) was a German syndicalist trade unionist. He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1890. He was one of the most important SPD leaders

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until he left the party in 1901. He then joined the

Free Association of German Trade Unions The Free Association of German Trade Unions (; abbreviated FVdG; sometimes also translated as Free Association of German Unions or Free Alliance of German Trade Unions) was a trade union federation in Imperial and early Weimar Germany. It was fou ...

(FVdG) and become one of its most prominent members in the

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. In 1913,

Fritz Kater Fritz Kater (12 December 1861 – 20 May 1945) was a German trade unionist active in the Free Association of German Trade Unions (FVdG) and its successor organization, the Free Workers' Union of Germany. He was the editor of the FVdG's organ ...

Karl Roche Karl Roche (1862–1931) was a German syndicalist and left communist trade unionist. Roche joined the Free Association of German Trade Unions (FVdG) around 1900 as a seaman. He became a prominent member of the organization. In 1913, Carl Windh ...

, and he were the FVdG's delegates at the

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in London. After

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, he was one of the leaders of the FVdG in the

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and helped re-build the organization. He became the head of the agitation committee of the

Free Workers' Union of Germany The Free Workers' Union of Germany (; FAUD) was an anarcho-syndicalist trade union in Germany. It stemmed from the Free Association of German Trade Unions (FDVG) which combined with the Ruhr region's Freie Arbeiter Union on September 15, 1919. ...

(FAUD), the follow-up organization of the FVdG, in 1922. After the Nazi '' Machtergreifung'' in 1933, he was arrested in 1937 and convicted to three years in prison. He died three years later.

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Helge Döhring: Carl Windhoff (1872-1941)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Windhoff, Carl 1882 births 1940 deaths Members of the Free Association of German Trade Unions Members of the Free Workers' Union of Germany