Max Winter (politician)
Austrian journalist and politician (1870–1937)
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Max Winter dressed as "down-and-out" for his reportage about so-called "Strotter" (people who looked, in those years, for things like bones, fat and money to just survive) which he did in 1902 for the socialist newspaper "Wiener Arbeiterzeitung". | |
Born | January 9, 1870 (1870-01-09) Tárnok, Hungary |
Died | July 11, 1937(1937-07-11) (aged 67) Hollywood, California, United States |
Occupation | Austrian politician |
Max Winter (January 9, 1870 in Tárnok, Hungary – July 11, 1937 in Hollywood, California, United States) was an Austrian journalist, writer and politician of the SDAP. In 1923 he founded a feminist magazine, Die Unzufriedene, with Paula Hons which he edited until 1931.[1]
He was instrumental in acquiring use of part of the Schönbrunn Palace as a school.[2] The street Max Winter Platz in Vienna is named after him.