Louis Lingg


Louis Lingg was a German immigrant and anarchist who committed suicide while in jail after being convicted and sentenced to hang as a member of a criminal conspiracy behind the Haymarket Square bombing. Lingg committed suicide in his cell with an explosive shortly before his scheduled execution.

Louis Lingg was born on September 9, 1864 in Mannheim, Germany to Friedrich Lingg. His father was injured in the lumber mill where he worked. Louis wrote in his autobiography At this time I was thirteen and my sister seven years old, and at this age I received my first impressions of the prevailing unjust social institutions, i.e., the exploitation of men by men.

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