Helmut Kirschey

German construction worker, anarcho-syndicalist and anti-fascist fighter. In February 1937 he joined the International Company of the Durruti Column. Together with other German anarcho-syndicalists, he was arrested after armed clashes between Stalinists and anarchists in June 1937 and imprisoned in communist secret prisons in Barcelona and Valencia, and later a state prison in Segorbe until April 1938. He then stayed in France and the Netherlands until he managed to enter Sweden at the beginning of 1939, where he joined the Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden (SAC).