Max Nettlau

Max Nettlau
Max Nettlau
Born(1865-04-30)30 April 1865
Neuwaldegg, Archduchy of Austria, German Confederation
Died23 July 1944(1944-07-23) (aged 79)
Amsterdam, Reichskommissariat Niederlande
GenreHistory, politics
Literary movementAnarchism

Max Heinrich Hermann Reinhardt Nettlau (German: [ˈnɛtlaʊ]; 1865–1944) was a German anarchist and historian.

His extensive collection or archives was sold to the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam in 1935. He lived continuously in Amsterdam from 1938 where he worked on cataloging the archive for the Institute. He died there suddenly from stomach cancer in 1944, without ever being harassed.