Free Workers' Union of Germany
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The Free Workers' Union of Germany was an anarcho-syndicalist
Anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labour movement. The word syndicalism comes from the French word syndicat which means trade union , from the Latin word syndicus which in turn comes from the Greek word σύνδικος which means caretaker of an issue...

 trade union
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

, which existed from the renaming of the Free Association of German Trade Unions
Free Association of German Trade Unions
The Free Association of German Trade Unions was a trade union federation in Imperial and early Weimar Germany. It was founded in 1897 in Halle under the name Representatives' Centralization of Germany as the national umbrella organization of the localist current of the German labor movement...

 (FDVG) on September 15, 1919 to its official disbandment in January 1933 after the Nazis came into power, although many of its members continued to be do political work illegally and organized resistance against the Nazi regime. The International Workers Association
International Workers Association
The International Workers' Association is an international federation of anarcho-syndicalist labour unions and initiatives based primarily in Europe and Latin America....

, in which the FAUD was a member, was founded upon the initiative of the German organization. The Free Workers' Union
Free Workers' Union
The Free Workers' Union is a small anarcho-syndicalist union in Germany. It is the German section of the International Workers Association , to which the larger and better known Confederación Nacional del Trabajo in Spain also belongs...

 (FAU), which was founded in 1977, sees itself in the tradition of the FAUD. At its peak, the FAUD had 150,000 members.

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