[2] Georg Glaser was born ten years into the twentieth century in Guntersblum, a small town in the wine growing region to the south of Mainz: he grew up in nearby Dolgesheim.

The boy fell foul of the law fairly early on, and after leaving middle school he attended a "correction institute" between 1926 and 1929.

[3] During the later 1920s he spent some time living on the streets and frequently ran away from the institutions in which he was placed, preferring the company of young communists, anarchists or naturists.

Glaser participated in small clandestine resistance groups for about a year, before relocating to the Saarland,[5] a part of Germany still under French military and political control, following terms imposed at the end of the war in 1919.

From the Saarland Glaser moved on to Paris,[3] which had become a focus for German Communists fleeing from Germany, where their party political activities were now illegal.

[1] War resumed at the beginning of September 1939: nine days later Georg Glaser was called up for military service in the French army.

He involved himself in the aftermath of the "Sacco and Vanzetti" affair, during the course of which he met fellow activists Giliana Berneri and the leading libertarian André Prudhommeaux.

During his exile in the middle and later 1930s he became more distant from Communist ideology and returned increasingly to the anarchist principles that had influenced his teenage years.

During the closing years of the twentieth century Georg K Glaser was rediscovered as a writer for a wider audience, and his literary output became relatively mainstream.

Since 1998 the "Rhein-Pfalz" Ministry for Education and Culture in the region of his birth has celebrated his literary contribution with the annually awarded Georg K. Glaser Prize.