Gustav Regler

[1] Gustav Regler was born on 25 May 1898 in Merzig, in the Prussian Rhine Province (now Saarland).

He later served as political commissar of the XII International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.

[3] As a Communist, he was long-time friend of Arthur Koestler, first in Berlin, then Paris and during the Spanish Civil War.

Regler eventually broke with the Soviet Communist Party and took refuge in Mexico where he lived the last years of his life in Tepoztlán with his second wife Margaret (Peggy).

He died while traveling in India to receive a prize at age 69 and his body was burned on the ghats of the Benares river.