George Engel

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George Engel (1836 Cassel, Germany - November 11, 1887) was an anarchist and labor union activist executed after the Haymarket riot, along with Albert Parsons, August Spies, and Adolph Fischer. He left Germany in 1872 arriving first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January 1873 where he worked in a factory in which he became acquainted with socialism. In 1878 he left Philadelphia and moved to Chicago, Illinois and joined the just forming International Working People's Association. He attended the Grief Hall meeting, but was not at the meeting at Haymarket.

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