André Bösiger

André Bösiger (22 July 1913, Perrefitte – Geneva, 13 April 2005) was a Swiss anarcho-syndicalist. An activist of the Building Action League in Geneva, he collaborated with the Réveil anarchiste and the International Center for Research on Anarchism (Lausanne).

Biography A construction worker, he joined the Building Action League where he befriended the anarchists Luigi Bertoni (editor of Il Risveglio anarchico) and Lucien Tronchet. The Building Action League actively practiced sabotage and direct action as well as helping unemployed people that were evicted from their homes.

He also participated in the anarchist group of Geneva and took part in the activities of freethought. Among the victims of the shooting was Bösiger's best friend, Melchior Allemann.

Convicted twice for insubordination to the army, Bösiger served a first sentence of two months in 1934, then another of sixteen months which ended in March 1937.

During the Spanish Civil War, he procured arms for the companions of the CNT and took charge of orphans, and was expelled from France for these actions.

On 19 July 1990, he lost his partner and fellow anarchist activist Ruth Bösiger.

Works Souvenirs d'un rebelle, Canevas éditeur, 1992. Souvenirs d’un rebelle - Soixante ans de lutte d’un libertaire jurassien, with the collaboration of Alexandre Skirda, text presented by Marianne Enckell and Ariane Miéville, illustrations by Jean-Pierre Ducret, Atelier de création libertaire, 2017, , présentation éditeur.