Adelheid Popp

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Adelheid Popp, 1892

Adelheid Popp , b. Dworak (born February 11, 1869 in Inzersdorf near Vienna, † March 7, 1939 in Vienna ) was an Austrian women's rights activist and socialist . She was the founder of the proletarian women's movement in Austria.

Life

Adelheid Dworak was the daughter of the alcoholic weaver Adalbert Dvořak from SlukowBorn in Bohemia, who died when Adelheid was six years old. Her mother, the factory worker Anna Kubeschka from Bohemia, gave birth to at least fifteen children (there is evidence that Adelheid was the fifteenth child), ten or more of whom died in childhood. The tyrannical father died when Adelheid was six years old. Ten-year-old Adelheid Dworak had to leave school after just three years of school when her mother moved to Vienna. The young Adelheid now worked hard, first at home (crocheting, sewing), then as a maid and factory worker. She was overwhelmed and had several hospital stays. Only occasional entertainment literature gave her a change. She was taken to workers' meetings by her brothers, where one day she spoke about the situation of the workers and caused a stir. From that moment on, Popp worked twelve hours a day in the factory and first learned to read and write in the evening, then read socialist pamphlets and wrote articles about the situation of women workers. On weekends, she spoke at party meetings.

After helping to organize a women’s strike, she was targeted by the secret police and was imprisoned several times for being offensive with her radical theses on the free development of women in public, at work and in the family. In 1891 she was a member of the Vienna Workers' Education Association. As a co-founder, in 1892, she became the editor-in-chief of the Austrian Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung , whose editor she became from 1919. From 1893 she was chairman of the Libertas Reading and Discussing Club. During this time she maintained good relationships with Friedrich Engels and August Bebel , who both valued them very much. Adelheid Popp's husband had been Julius Popp since 1893 , a close friend and colleague of the Social Democratic party leader Victor Adler , she was friends with his wife, the writer Emma Adler . Julius Popp died eight years later in 1902. Her two sons also died early, one as a soldier in World War I , the other of flu.

In 1902 Popp founded the association of social democratic women and girls together with others . In 1909 her “Youth History of a Worker” appeared anonymously with a foreword by August Bebel and became a well-read book in socialist circles.

Grave of Adelheid and Julius Popp

In 1918 she was elected to the party executive, in the same year also to the Vienna City Council , to which she belonged until 1923. A year later, in 1919, she became a member of the National Council , where she was re-elected several times until 1934. She also became the Chair of the International Women's Committee (succeeding Clara Zetkin ). In 1929 in Vienna “Der Weg zur Höhe” was published, a story about the social democratic women's movement.

In 1933 she resigned from her party functions due to reasons of age. She lived through the February fighting in 1934 with the subsequent ban on the SDAP and the annexation of Austria by the German Reich in 1938, but was no longer able to take action due to illness. She died on March 7, 1939 in Vienna.

Honors

  • She is buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 63, Row 2, No. 24).
  • In 1949, the urban residential complex Possingergasse-Herbststrasse in Vienna- Ottakring was named Adelheid-Popp-Hof .
  • In 1992 the Adelheid-Popp-Weg in Linz was named after her, it is located in the Auwiesen district and connects Halle- and Kreiskystraße.
  • In 2011, the park in the Geblergasse area (opposite No. 74-78) in Vienna 17 was named after her.
  • In 2011 the Adelheid-Popp-Gasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after her.

plant

  • The worker in the struggle for existence . (Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung Brand, Vienna 1895. Digitalized MDZ Reader )
  • Free love and civil marriage . (1895, jury trial against the Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung )
  • The Christian Social Party in Austria (In: Sozialistische Monatshefte 1905, Issue 6, pp. 521–527. Digitized version )
  • The Austrian electoral reform and women's rights . (In: Sozialistische Monatshefte 1906, No. 4, pp. 301–305.)
  • Adelheid Popp, Emmy Freundlich : The socio-political demands on legislation. Women's suffrage and protection of women workers. (Vienna 1908, In: Negotiations of the Social Democratic Women's Conference in Austria, Issue 3/1908, pp. 36–36 [1] )
  • The workers' movement in Austria . (In: Die neue Zeit , Wochenschrift der deutschen Sozialdemokratie, Volume 2, 1909, Issue 27, pp. 19-23 [2] )
  • The youth story of a worker, told by herself. With introductory words by August Bebel. (Ernst Reinhardt, Munich 1909, first published anonymously, only from 3rd edition 1910 with name.) Digitized 3rd probably edition 1912 . Digitized 4th edition
    • Again: Sad youth , Vienna 1927: Publishing house of the independent weekly "Die Unzufriedene" as 17th / 18th. Ribbon of the Viennese Groschenbüchel
    • Again: youth of a worker. Edited by Sibylle Hamann . With essays by SH and Katharina Prager. Vienna: Picus 2019, ISBN 978-3-7117-2087-0
  • Protection of mother and child . (Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung Brand, Vienna 1910. 30 p. ( Lichtstrahl , issue 21) (microfiche edition, http://gateway-bayern.de/BV026337614 ))
  • For women's day! . (Essay. In: Die neue Zeit . Wochenschrift der dt. Sozialdemokratie, 1. Volume 1911, Issue 24, pp. 836–838 [3] )
  • Girl book . (Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung Brand, Vienna 1911. (The young world, issue 6) Digitized 2nd, revised edition 1914 )
  • As editor: memorial book. 20 years of the Austrian workers' movement. On behalf of the Women's Empire Committee, hersg. by Adelheid Popp. (Vienna 1912, 'Vorwärts' in Komm. 164 p. Reprint of the original paperback edition: University of Innsbruck, 2007, ISBN 3-226-00395-X )
  • House slaves. A contribution to the situation of the maids. (Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung Brand, Vienna 1912. 31 p. Digitized edition: Wildberg 1999/2002)
  • Jenny Marx . (Part of: Robert Danneberg : Karl Marx. The man and his work . Publisher of the Association of Young Workers (Anton Jenschik), Vienna 1913, pp. 18-20.)
  • Child labor in Austria . (In: Die neue Zeit . Wochenschrift der dt. Sozialdemokratie, 2. Volume 1913, Issue 52, pp. 1012-1021 digitized )
  • Adolf Braun (Ed.): Equal rights for women! An advertising leaflet with contributions by Emmy Freundlich , Siegfried Nestriepke , Adelheid Popp. (Verlag der Fränkische Verlags-Anstalt & Buchdruckerei, Nuremberg 1914. 31 pp.)
  • Memories. From my childhood and Girls years. From agitation and other things . (Dietz, Stuttgart 1915)
  • Woman - worker - social democracy . (Ed. By the Vienna Women's Reich Committee. Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung Brand, Vienna 1916. 32 S)
  • Women of Work, Join! A reminder call. (Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung Brand, Vienna 1919. Digitized version )
  • What the women of the republic owe . (Contained in: Freedom and Ascent . Adelheid Popp: What the women owe to the republic and Therese Schlesinger : The rise of the workers' movement in the year of the revolution . Vienna 1919. 24 p. (Internet resource, Goethe-Uni, Frankfurt a. M.))
  • Women's work in capitalist society . (Women - Central Committee, Vienna 1922. Digitalized MDZ Reader )
    • New edition for the 150th birthday of Adelheid Popp, with a biblio-biographical commentary by Thierry Elsen. edition libica, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-903137-26-4 .
  • Champions of humanity . (Central Office for Education of the German Social Democratic Labor Party, Prague 1925. 10 p. In: Leaflets for women's lectures Digitized edition : Wildberg 1999 + 2002)
  • The way to the top: the social democratic women's movement in Austria. Its structure, its development and its ascent (Vienna: Central Women's Committee of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of German Austria, 1929. 149 pp.)
  • Youth of a worker , ed. v. Sibylle Hamann , Picus Verlag, Vienna 2019 (first edition 1909, published anonymously), ISBN 978-3-7117-2087-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Adelheid Popp: She was Viktor Adler's most successful student . In: Die Presse , June 9, 2012. Accessed February 5, 2013.
  2. ^ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 243f.
  3. ↑ a b Norbert Leser: Grenzgänger: Austrian Intellectual History in Necromancy . Böhlau, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-205-07183-2 , p. 203.
  4. ^ Vienna in retrospect: Adelheid Popp-Hof auf der Schmelz
personal data
SURNAME Popp, Adelheid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dworak, Adelheid (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian women's rights activist and socialist, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Inzersdorf (Vienna)
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1939
Place of death Vienna