Franz Nowak

German bricklayer and one of the leading anarcho-syndicalists in Upper Silesia, who was also chairman of the Freien Vereinigung der Maurer Deutschlands (Free Association of Masons of Germany) and the Freie Vereinigung deutscher Gewerkschaften (FVdG - Free Association of German Trade Unions) in Breslau. He was murdered in Gross-Rosen concentration camp shortly before the end of the war.