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Gustav Doster

AKA
'Gustl'
Known for
Anti-Fascist
Born
Died

Biography

A metalworker after a tool turning machine apprenticeship until 1933 Darmstadt. In 1920 he became a member of the "International Anti-Militarist Association," 1921 of the Free Workers' Union Germany (FAUD) and was active in various functions.

After Gustav Doster lived an entry in the Darmstadt Address Book of 1933 jun. in the Michaelisstraße 16 (Occupation:: Eisendreher).
His 1879 in Stuttgart born father lived after the entry in the address book of 1933 on Mathildenplatz 1 (profession: Kesselschmied). According to the 1935 address book, Both reported in Michaelisstraße.

On the 9 or 10. In March 1933, Doster was arrested and sent to the courthouse Darmstadt delivered. After he was released from prison over Pentecost in 1933 Had been released, he was released on 6. May arrested again and in the KZ Osthofen Delivered. He was suspected, political Print fonts manufactured and distributed and by leaflets and posters "publicly to Violence against persons and things" to have asked. On 11. In May 1933, the district court sentenced him Darmstadt because of "Offence against the firearms law" to three weeks Prison. The sentence was considered to be served by the detention.

As recently as the summer of 1933, he attended an "illegal" meeting of the FAUD. In the In November 1933, he left for Amsterdam with the help of the FAUD. There He founded the foreign group of Germans with others Anarcho-Syndicalist (DAS) and published a font.

1936 He was arrested. The threat of extradition to Nazi Germany He escaped from Belgium and Sweden by his escape Spain. In Spain, he became an employee of the German-speaking Radio broadcast by Radio CNT-FAI. He took in the units of the German Anarcho-Syndicalists participate in the civil war.

1938 became him and his wife Rosa Maria Doster, b. Tilger (20.11. 1904 Edenkoben/Pfalz - 1944 Stockholm), with which he has been dating since 17.11.1928 was married, the German nationality revoked. 1939 fled he to Sweden. There he worked until 1951 as a tool turner in Stockholm and was a farmer. Politically, he got involved in the syndicalist "Sveriges Arbetarens Central Organization."