Gustav Kessler (German spelling: Keßler) (1832-1904) was a German trade unionist.
He joined the Progress Party in 1883 and was the editor of Bauhandwerker, a construction workers' unionist magazine from 1884 to 1886. As a result of the Anti-Socialist Laws, he was expelled from Berlin in 1886 and eventually from other towns as well. In 1899, he was a delegate at the Second International's founding congress in Paris. He was editor of the socialist newspaper Volksblatt für Teltow-Beeskow-Storkow-Charlottenburg from 1890. In 1890 and 1891, he was the SPD party delegate from Calbe-Aschersleben. He ran for the Reichstag repeatedly. An important figure in the localist current of the German labor movement, he was one of the leading founders of the Free Association of German Trade Unions in 1897 and the editor of its organ Einigkeit until his death in 1904.
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