Felix Jansen

Felix Jansen (ca. 1848 - 15 October 1881) was a Brunanter journalist, socialist and political activist. He is well-known for his revolutionary activities during the Liberal Revolution, which eventually led to his death.

Biography
Jansen worked as a journalist for several socialist newspapers in the 1870s and was most likely associated with republican conspiracies to overthrow King Johan I, who conducted a conservative and authoritarian policy. He was linked to Brunant's communists and anarchists. He was briefly imprisoned twice, for a street fight in 1874 and for republican ideologies in 1878.

In 1880, Jansen wrote in De Stadt that "it would not take much longer for the people of Koningstad and the rest of Brunant to take matters into their own hands against the city's dishonest rulers". When he heard of the atrocities that happened in the countryside by order of the king (Peasants Revolt, Jansen was one of the first to write pamphlets. He also briefly set up his own daily newspaper. He quickly became one of the leaders of the broad group of anarchists, communists, republicans and socialists, who instigated the workers and the lower-middle classes, who had long supported a democratic republic. Jansen actively participated in barricades and the republican control of the capital in February and March 1881.

When in August 1881 Crown Prince Pieter took control of the royalist armies and organized a truce between the city's republicans and royalists, Jansen opposed this. Inspired by the Paris Commune, he wanted a domination of the people and not an inept prince as the country's new absolute ruler. Jansen fled to Carrington, but was arrested and imprisoned in September 1881. He was later executed.