Andreas Scheu

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Andreas Scheu

Andreas Scheu (born January 27, 1844 in Vienna ; † August 29, 1927 in Rapperswil (Switzerland) ) was an Austrian social democratic politician. He is one of the pioneers of the Austrian labor movement.

Life

He came from a large family of craftsmen. His brother Josef Franz Georg Scheu was a composer, another brother Heinrich Scheu was a publicist and xylograph. He was the uncle of the politician and lawyer Gustav Scheu .

Shy was a gilder by profession. After his apprenticeship he worked temporarily in Prague , but soon returned to Vienna. The Lower Austrian Chamber of Commerce sent him to Paris for the 1867 World's Fair . In 1867 he joined a workers' education association in Vienna . As early as 1868 he appeared as a speaker in meetings of the Gumpendorf Workers 'Education Association, which is considered to be one of the forerunners of the Social Democratic Workers' Party in Austria . He became a board member and spoke as a well-known agitator in Austria and Hungary. In 1868 he was secretary of the Workers' Industry Exhibition in Vienna. In 1869 he became a member of the International Workers' Association around Karl Marx. Together with others such as Heinrich Oberwinder , he took part in the Eisenach party conference of the German Social Democrats that same year . Since 1870 he was the editor and publisher of the weekly newspaper "Volkswille." In 1870 he was arrested for alleged treason in the Viennese high treason trial and sentenced to five years in prison. He was given an amnesty as early as 1871. In the conflict between the moderates and the radical sections of the Austrian labor movement, shyness belonged to the radical direction. In 1874 he was instrumental in bringing about the unification and founding party congress of the Austrian Social Democrats in Neudörfl .

In the same year, after being arrested again in Prague, he emigrated to England. There he joined the English labor movement and took part as its representative at the first socialist congress in Paris in 1889. He was also a delegate to the international congresses in Zurich in 1893 and Stuttgart in 1907.

In England he was one of the employees of the anarchist Johann Most at his newspaper "Freiheit." There he was also a co-founder of the "Social Democratic Federation" and the "Socialist League". He had a close friendship with William Morris. Nonetheless, Scheu stayed in contact with social democracy in Austria and wrote for various newspapers.

In 1912 he moved to Weimar and in 1914 to Switzerland . He was an opponent of the First World War and devoted himself to writing.

Works

  • Poems . Shy, Andreas. In: German workers' seal. Volume 5, Verlag JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1893.
  • Dream message . In: The new time: Review of intellectual and public life (1893).
  • Life pictures from England . In: The new time: Review of intellectual and public life (1894).
  • Dawn of May and other spring songs . Shy, Andreas. Publishing house JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1899.
  • Elsa Grimm. A story from the end of the XIX. Century . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung (Vienna) 1906.
  • The cooperative family home . In: Socialist monthly books (1912).
  • Upheaval. Experiences of a fighter . Shy, Andreas. Part 1: Children's, teaching and Wandering years; Part 2: Career; Part 3: On the open ground; Vienna: Wiener Volksbuchhandlung 1923.

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SURNAME Shy, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician; Pioneer of the labor movement
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1927
Place of death Rapperswil SG