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.