Heinrich Oberwinder

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Heinrich Oberwinder (born March 14, 1845 in Weilburg , † May 9, 1914 in Dresden ) was a social democratic politician and journalist. He is considered one of the pioneers of the Austrian labor movement . He represented the reformist direction. Later he joined the anti-Semitic and nationalist Christian-social movement in Germany.

Heinrich Oberwinder

Life

Oberwinder was a founding member of the Lassallean General German Workers' Association in 1863 . In the discussions about the amalgamation of the German states, he represented the greater German position. In the 1860s he went to Austria, where in 1867 he was one of the founders of the Gumpendorfer Arbeiterbildungsverein, which is considered one of the forerunners of the Austrian Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) . He was a correspondent for Wilhelm Liebknecht's Democratic Weekly newspaper . From 1869 he also worked for the first social democratic newspaper in Austria, the “Volksstimme.” In 1870 he was sentenced to 6 years in prison in the Viennese high treason trial. However, he was pardoned in 1871.

During the factional struggles within the Social Democratic Workers' Party in Austria, Oberwinder stood on the side of the right-wing reformists. He advocated an electoral reform offered by the state, which refused universal and equal suffrage, for which there was no alternative for the "radicals" in the SDAP. He hoped that social democratic approval would provide "broad support from the state against the dangers of Slavism", as he saw it as a Greater German nationalist. He finally pushed through the exclusion of the left opposition around Andreas Scheu , but came under suspicion of being a police and government agent, whereupon he stopped his activity in the Austrian and German labor movement, left Austria and worked as a journalist in Germany.

After passing through stops at bourgeois newspapers, he joined the anti-Semitic and nationalist Christian-social movement . He became the owner of the Christian-Social Fatherland Publishing Company and editor-in-chief of the party organ "Das Volk". Together with the second editor, Hellmut von Gerlach , he was dismissed in the course of a party purge in 1896 because both had criticized the social conditions in the empire and their opponents were not fundamentally anti-Semitic enough.

Works

  • Lassalle's life and work. Lecture. Pichler, Vienna 1868
  • Explanation . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 31 supplement dated July 31, 1869.
  • The labor movement in Austria. An authentic historical account . Hill, Vienna 1875
  • The current political situation and the social movement in Germany. A lecture . Self-published, Hamburg 1878
  • Socialism and social policy: a contribution to the history of the socio-political struggles of our time . Elvin Staude, Berlin 1887
  • The Buschoff case: the investigation into the Xanten boy murder . From an initiate . Verlag der Vaterländischen Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin 1892
  • World power politics and social politics. Lecture given at the Naval Association of Strasbourg iE on April 7, 1900 . Waltherm Berlin 1900
  • The world crisis and the tasks of the German Reich . Baensch, Dresden 1905. ( digitized version )
  • Germany's world position and the German Fleet Association . Boden, Dresden 1908
  • Ferdinand Lassalle and its significance for the present . Special print: März-Verlag, Munich 1912, pp. 126–133
  • England the originator of the world crisis . Giesecke, Dresden-A. (1914)

literature

  • Ludwig Brügel : History of Austrian Social Democracy , 5 vol., Vienna 1922–1925
  • Paul W. Massing: Prehistory of Political Anti-Semitism . Frankfurt a. M. 1959
  • Heinrich Scheu (ed.): The Viennese high treason trial. Report on the jury trial against Andreas Scheu , Heinrich Oberwinder, Johann Most u. Enjoyed. Along with an introduction: “On the political and social history 1848 to 1870” by Karl Renner , with the “Memories of Heinrich Scheu. A contribution to the history of the Austrian labor movement ”and a historical epilogue“ Austria from 1870 to 1907 and the electoral reform struggles of the workers ”by Karl Renner . People's bookstore Ignaz Brand, Vienna 1911

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Oberwinder  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rubric "From German-Austria". See also the 14 letters from Heinrich Oberwinder to Wilhelm Liebknecht. They are printed in Wilhelm Liebknecht. Correspondence with German Social Democrats. Part 1. 1862–1878 . Ed. U. edit by Georg Eckert . van Gorcum, Assen 1973. ( Sources and studies on the history of the German and Austrian labor movement. New series 4) ISBN 90-232-0858-7 , pp. 227-254.
  2. ↑ Peter Belinda, Social Democracy in Austria, Vienna 1988, p. 17.
  3. ^ Peter Schöffer, The Suffrage Struggle of the Austrian Social Democracy 1888 / 89-1897 (= Studies on Modern History, Vol. 34), Stuttgart 1986, p. 66f.
  4. ^ Paul W. Massing, Prehistory of Political Anti-Semitism, Frankfurt a. M. 1959, pp. 121ff., 130f .; Werner Jochmann , Stoecker as a nationally conservative politician and anti-Semitic agitator, in: Günter Brakelmann / Werner Jochmann / Martin Greschat , Protestantism and Politics. Work and impact of Adolf Stoecker (Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history, Vol. XVII), Hamburg 1982, pp. 123–198, here: p. 180; Helmut Busch, The Stoecker Movement in Siegerland. A contribution to the history of Siegerland in the second half of the 19th century, Siegen 1968, p. 106.
  5. ↑ Literally taken from: Heinrich Oberwinder to Wilhelm Liebknecht o. D. in: Wilhelm Liebknecht. Correspondence with German Social Democrats, pp. 256–257.
  6. ^ Review of Karl Kautsky Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Oberwinder, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION social democratic politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Weilburg , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1914
Place of death Dresden