Auguste Keufer

Auguste Keufer (20 April 1851, in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines – 30 March 1924, in Paris) was a French typesetter and syndicalist.[1] He was the first treasurer of the Confédération générale du travail (CGT)[1]

Orphaned at an early age, Keufer experienced poverty in his youth. He trained as a typographer with the printers Haut-Rhin Jardel.

References

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  1. ^ a b "BnF Catalogue général". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
Trade union offices
Preceded by
New position
Treasurer of the General Confederation of Labour
1895–1896
Succeeded by
J. Garcin