[Carl Wunibalt Otto--communist, pharmacist and chemist]

Along with the cigarette factory worker P. Röser, the tailors P. J. Nothjung und F. Lessner, the editor H. Bürgers, the publisher H. Becker, the clerk J. Ehrhardt and the doctors R. Daniels, J. Klein, A. Jacobi and W. Reiff, the 1852 Cologne communist trial also tried the pharmacist and chemist C. W. Otto. His life and his work for the German revolutionary worker's movement in the ninetieth century, up till now hardy mentioned, is discussed with the aid of archive sources.