[4] It is known that in his early twenties he was active as an anarchist and by 1919 had become the chairman of the local Beuthen organisation of the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD) in the Province of Upper Silesia.
In 1932 the police uncovered a secret weapons depot belonging to the Black Band, implicated in their discovery Czakon fled Silesia with two of his accomplices.
[3] With the help of a contact in the Silesian town of Kravaře, on the Czechoslovak side of the border, he obtained forged documents and was able to reach Spain.
[3] In Spain, Czakon became one of a number of activists from across Polish, German and Czech administered Silesia who came to the defence of the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War.
Along with fellow Silesian anarchists, including Alfons Malina and Augustin Souchy, he joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, becoming a commander of the Sacco-Vanzetti Battalion.