William Trautmann

William E. Trautmann was founding General-Secretary of the US Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and one of six people who initially laid plans for the organization in 1904.

Trautmann was a key figure in the United Brewery Workers' Union in Milwaukee and the editor of the United Brewery Workers' German-language newspaper. He was expelled from that union for his participation in the founding IWW convention.