!!!Winter, Max

b. Tárnok (Hungary), Jan. 9, 1870, 
d. Hollywood (USA, buried in Vienna), July 11, 1937, social reformer, 
journalist. Worked for the social-democratic newspaper 
"Arbeiterzeitung" from 1895-1930; wrote critical reports on the social 
situation of the proletarian class in Vienna; 1911-1918 
social-democratic member of the Reichsrat; 1919 member of the Vienna 
Landtag, member of the municipal council of Vienna and Deputy-Mayor. 
Supported and financially backed the Kinderfreunde organisation. With 
his project "Muehlstein" he managed to establish libraries for 
children throughout Austria in 1925. Resigned in 1930; fled to America 
in 1934, where he continued to fight for the rights of the working 
class and of children.

!Literature
F. G. Kuerbisch, Soz.-krit. Reportagen in der 
dt.-sprach. Arbeiterliteratur: M. W. - H. Holek - M. Leitner, 
1981; A. Tesarek, Er warb fuer das Anliegen der Kinder: M. W., 
1983; S. Riesenfellner, Der Sozialreporter M. W. im alten 
Oesterreich, 1987; G. Selbherr, M. W., master´s 
thesis, Vienna 1995.



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