Heinrich Allina

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Heinrich Allina (born November 24, 1878 in Schaffa , Austria-Hungary , † December 10, 1953 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician and publicist .

Heinrich Allina was born in Schaffa, South Moravia. He was secretary of the Reich Association of Bank and Savings Bank Officials in Austria and editor of the association newspaper “Der Bankbeamte”.

From March 4, 1919 to November 9, 1920 he was a member of the Constituent National Assembly, then from November 10, 1920 to February 17, 1934 a member of the National Council in Vienna, where he served as a member of the trade union commission from 1923 to 1928. From 1931 to 1934 he was a member of the federal executive committee of the free (social democratic oriented) trade unions.

During Austrofascism he was a prisoner in the Wöllersdorf detention camp , in 1938/39 in the Dachau concentration camp and in the Buchenwald concentration camp . In 1939 he was released and emigrated to London , where he was co-founder and, together with Georg Lelewer , spokesman for the “Austrian Office”. Because he worked with legitimists , he was expelled from the League of Austrian Social Democrats in Great Britain in 1940 and then founded the Austrian Social Democrats in Great Britain (Group Allina) and the magazine Der Freiheitskampf.

From 1939 to 1941 he was interned as an enemy alien .

After the war he returned to Vienna.

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Individual evidence

  1. See Peter Schwarz, Österreich nach Hitler. Reorganization plans in Austrian exile, in: Claus-Dieter Krohn (Ed.), Handbook of German-speaking Emigration 1933-1945 , 2nd, unchanged. Ed., Darmstadt 2008, pp. 660-678, here pp. 664 f.
  2. ^ Heinrich Allina in the database Britain, Enemy Aliens and Internees