Biography
Frederick Briehl was from Brooklyn, New York. Frederick Briehl was a conscientious objector imprisoned during World War I at Fort Leavenworth and the Fort Douglas War Prison Barracks in Utah. (Recorded as Frederick "Fred" Briehl)
The November 6, 1934 Daily Worker, page 3, identifies his portrait among Communist candidates. Cornell University’s Fred Briehl papers (collection 3474) identify the Wallkill dairy farmer and political organizer as the same man whose 1917–1920 diaries document imprisonment for refusing World War I military service; its creator record gives his lifespan as 1892–1974. Sources: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n265-NY-nov-06-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3 and https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM03474.html
The compilation reports an initial thirty-year sentence reduced to five years. Its narrative contains unresolved transfer and confinement chronology, including later 1920 material; the nominal term does not resolve those custody dates.
Anne M. Yoder, World War I Conscientious Objector Database, retained CSV row 255.
