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. *

, ''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 {{anarchist-stub