!!!Oberwinder, Heinrich

Oberwinder, Heinrich, b. Weilburg (Germany), 1846, 
d. Dresden (Germany), May 9, 1914. Pioneer of the Austrian 
workers´ movement, journalist. 1867 co-founder of the Gumpendorf 
workers´ educational association, a forerunner of the Austrian 
Socialist Party, SPOe. From 1869 contributor to the Communist paper 
"Volksstimme", 1870 sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in the "Wiener 
Hochverratsprozess" (a trial for high treason in Vienna). Later 
conflict with A.  Scheu and split in the workers´ movement. Was 
suspected of being a government agent and left the country in 1878, 
worked abroad as a journalist.

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Work: Die Arbeiterbewegung in Oesterreich, 1875.

!Literature
L. Bruegel, Geschichte der oesterreichischen 
Sozialdemokratie, 5 vols., 1922-1925.


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