Free Workers' Union of Germany

This also led to further difficulties between the intellectual elites of the FAUD (AS), such as Rudolf Rocker, and the rank and file workers, mostly in the Ruhr region, who were more worried about "bread and butter" issues than anarchist political activities.

However, many of its members continued to do political work illegally and organized resistance against the Nazi regime, both in Germany and elsewhere (see: Gruppe DAS and the revolution in Spain, 1936–1939).

The International Workers' Association, of which the FAUD was a member, was founded upon the initiative of the German organization in 1922.

The Free Workers' Union (FAU), which was founded in 1977, considers itself a successor of the FAUD.

The primary organ of the FAUD was the newspaper Der Syndikalist, which was first published in December 1918, and continued until the group's suppression by the Nazis.