 Following the split from the SPD , the FVdG was increasingly influenced by French syndicalism and anarchism . In 1908 , Kater called the Charter of Amiens , the platform of the French General Confederation of Labor ( CGT ) , the earliest and largest syndicalist union worldwide , " a new revelation " . Although there was no contact between German " intellectual anarchists " ( like Gustav Landauer and Erich Mühsam ) and the FVdG , it did have influential anarchist members , most notably Andreas Kleinlein and Fritz Köster . Kleinlein and Köster increasingly influenced the federation from 1908 on , and this led to the founding of Der Pionier in 1911 . This newspaper , which was edited by Köster , had a much more aggressive tone than Die Einigkeit . Despite these developments , the influence of the anarchists in the pre @-@ World War I FVdG remained quantitatively minute , especially as leading members like Kater were at the time very skeptical of the anarchist ideology . 
