Westphal, Max

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Max Westphal was born in Hamburg on September 30, 1895, the son of a dockworker. After attending elementary school, he worked at the Hamburg branch of Benz & Co. AG, first as a messenger and then as a clerk. He was a member of the youth group of the Fortbildungsverein, a socialist youth group that was forbidden to engage in political activity. During World War I he was drafted and lost his left arm in an attack. After a long stay in hospital, he returned to Hamburg and married Alice Düsedau, who was also politically active.

Wartenberg, Gerhard

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Gerhard Wartenberg was born in Tannroda/Thuringia on February 1, 1904, the son of a self-employed sign painter. He joined an anarcho-syndicalist youth group at an early age, and in 1927 he became a member of the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD), an anarcho-syndicalist trade union. In 1926 he studied chemistry in Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1928. From the fall of 1929 to mid-1930, he worked as a chemist for the French company "Produits photographiques et plastiques," which had a production facility in Pereslavl near Moscow.
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