Kurt Gustav Wilckens (November 3, 1886 – June 15, 1923) was a
German anarchist, known in
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
for having avenged the massacre of hundreds of workers on strike in the repression unleashed by the Argentine government in response to the prolonged
Patagonia rebelde labor uprising. Wilckens assassinated Lieutenant Colonel
Héctor Benigno Varela, the military leader in charge of the brutal repression. He was arrested and imprisoned for this assassination, and while incarcerated, he was assassinated by , member of the nationalist paramilitary group
Argentine Patriotic League
The Argentine Patriotic League ( es, Liga Patriótica Argentina) was a ''Nacionalista'' paramilitary group, officially created in Buenos Aires on January 16, 1919, during the Tragic week events. Presided over by Manuel Carlés, a professor at ...
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Osvaldo Bayer
Osvaldo Bayer (18 February 1927 – 24 December 2018) was an Argentine writer and journalist. He lived in Buenos Aires. In 1974, during the presidency of Isabel Perón, he went into exile, residing in Linz am Rhein, Germany, throughout the Natio ...
, ''Los anarquistas expropiadores, Simón Radowitzky y otros ensayos''. Galerna, Buenos Aires, 1974.
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Osvaldo Bayer
Osvaldo Bayer (18 February 1927 – 24 December 2018) was an Argentine writer and journalist. He lived in Buenos Aires. In 1974, during the presidency of Isabel Perón, he went into exile, residing in Linz am Rhein, Germany, throughout the Natio ...
, ''La Patagonia rebelde'', Tomo IV. Booket, Buenos Aires, 2007.
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1886 births
1923 deaths
People from Bad Bramstedt
People from the Province of Schleswig-Holstein
Industrial Workers of the World members
German emigrants to Argentina
Argentine anarchists
People murdered in Argentina
Anarchist assassins
Murdered anarchists
Argentine murder victims
Prisoners who died in Argentine detention
Prisoners murdered in custody
Deaths by firearm in Argentina
German people murdered abroad
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