Even during his lifetime, Aaron Swartz was called a genius. A prodigy whose input helped shape the results of various development teams that we still use today as a matter of course. As co-founder of the social news website Reddit, he championed the socio-political importance of the web, among other things. As technical developer of the Creative Commons team, he worked on the implementation of free licenses (“some rights reserved”), which are now used by the creators of more than 400 million works. Aaron Swartz was aware of the immense importance of the words open access, open source and net neutrality for the creative development of art as well as science. With the use of any new technical achievement, the socio-political consequences should be discussed at the same time. For Aaron Swartz, this was a natural way of thinking, which can be read out strongly in his Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto written in 2008.