Heinrich Bauer (worker leader)

Andreas Heinrich Bauer (* 1814 in Würzburg ; † lost in Australia after 1851) was a German labor leader.

Life

Bauer was a shoemaker by trade. In 1836 he emigrated to France for political reasons and joined the League of Outlaws in Paris . In 1836 he founded the League of the Just together with other journeymen . In the fall of 1841 he was responsible for the distribution of Wilhelm Weitling's magazine Der Hülferuf der Deutschen Jugend in Paris , which is why he was arrested in December 1841 and expelled from France. In 1842 Bauer went to England, where he worked with Joseph Moll and Karl Schapper in the London parish of the League of the Righteous and in the Communist Workers' Education Association . In 1843 he met Friedrich Engels in England . In the theoretical discussions of the Workers 'Education Association (1845/1846) he dealt critically with Weitling's utopian workers' communism and approached the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. With Schapper and Moll he formed the new central authority of the League of the Just in London in autumn 1846 , which was able to win Marx and Engels as members at the beginning of 1847. On the transformation of the Federation into the Bund der Kommunisten at the two congresses in June and November / December. In 1847 in London, Bauer had a large share. After the outbreak of the February Revolution in France in 1848, he went to Paris and became a member of the central authority of the League of Communists, newly formed here by Marx .

The “17 demands of the Communist Party in Germany” worked out by Marx and Engels were also signed by Bauer. The Club of German Workers in Paris elected him President in March 1848. At the end of March 1848 he returned to London and continued the tasks of the League of Communists there. In autumn 1848 he formed a new central federal authority together with Johann Georg Eccarius and Joseph Moll. It pursued the goal of reorganizing the federal government as a secret organization. After the suppression of the revolution, Bauer became a member of the new central authority of the League of Communists in London in 1849 . He also ran the social democratic refugee committee . As emissary of the central authority, Bauer traveled illegally to Germany in the spring of 1850 to reorganize the federal government. He consolidated the federal parishes and established connections with workers' gymnastics clubs and other proletarian organizations. Bauer emigrated to Australia around 1851 .

literature

• Bauer, Heinrich , in: Dr. iur. Wermuth and Dr. iur. Stieber : The Communist Conspiracies of the Nineteenth Century. In the official order for the use of the police authorities of all German federal states on the basis of the relevant judicial and police acts . AW Hayn, Berlin 1854, p. 23 ( online )
• Martin Hundt : Bauer, Heinrich , in: History of the German Labor Movement, Biographical Lexicon , Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 22-23
• Martin Hundt: One of the first revolutionary proletarians. Heinrich Bauer . Contributions to the history of the labor movement, Berlin, 1972, Issue 4, pp. 638–650