Clara Thalmann
Clara Thalmann (née Clara Ensner; 1908–1987) was an anarchist and fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
Clara Thalmann | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1908 Basel, Switzerland |
| Died | 1987 (aged 78–79) Nice, France |
Life
Clara Ensner was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1908. She met Paul Thalmann through the publication Basler Volwarts in 1928. They were ejected from the communist party the next year. They traveled to Spain in 1936, where Ensner intended to compete in the People's Olympiad, which was canceled with the start of the Spanish Civil War. They fought alongside anarcho-syndicalists in the Durruti Column and were captured by communists the next year. During World War II, they assisted German refugees living in Paris and participated in pro-Algeria activism. They started a guesthouse in Nice, France, and participated in student activism during the 1960s and 1970s. In their later life, they contributed to documentaries about their lives and published their personal memoirs. She died in Nice in 1987.[1]
Notes
- Sanders 1997, p. 296.
References
- Sanders, Huub (1997). "The collections of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, with special reference to Switzerland". In Studer, Brigitte; Vallotton, François (eds.). Histoire sociale et mouvement ouvrier: un bilan historiographique, 1848-1998 (in French). Editions d'en bas. pp. 283–302. ISBN 978-2-8290-0226-7.
Further reading
- Alba, Víctor & Stephen Schwartz, Spanish Marxism vs Soviet Communism: A History of the P.O.U.M, Transaction Publishers, 1988, ISBN 0-88738-198-7 p. 124
- Thalmann, Clara; Thalmann, Paul (1977). Revolution für die Freiheit Stationen e. polit. Kampfes Moskau, Madrid, Paris (2 ed.). Hamburg. ISBN 9783880320468.