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The Silesian weavers by Karl Hübner. Silesian weavers' uprising of 1844 (German: Schlesischer Weberaufstand) was a revolt against contractors who supplied the weavers of Silesia with raw material and gave them orders for finished textiles but drastically reduced their payments. Silesia's industry was in bad condition in the decades after 1815.
As social conditions worsened, growing unrest culminated in the Silesian cotton weavers' uprising (German: Schlesischer Weberaufstand) of 1844. This uprising, on the eve of the revolution of 1848 , was closely observed by German society and treated by several artists, among them Gerhart Hauptmann (with his 1892 play The Weavers ) and Heinrich ...
The Second Silesian Uprising (Polish: Drugie powstanie śląskie) was the second of the three uprisings. In February 1920, an Allied Plebiscite Commission was sent to Upper Silesia. It was composed of representatives of the Allied forces, mostly from France, with smaller contingents from United Kingdom and Italy. [ 3 ]
"The Silesian Weavers" (also: Weaver-song) is a poem by Heinrich Heine written in 1844. It is exemplary of the political poetry of the Vormärz movement. It is about the misery of the Silesian weavers, who in 1844 ventured an uprising against exploitation and wage decreases, and thereby drew attention to the grievances originated in the context of industrialization.
Sevastopol plague uprising; Seven and a Half Days Revolt; Shkodra revolt of 1854; Shoorcha rebellion; Silesian weavers' uprising; Kunwar Singh; Six Years' War; Slachter's Nek Rebellion; 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation; Slovak Uprising of 1848–49; Stara Zagora Uprising; Supreme Macedonian Committee chetas' action; Svaneti uprising of ...
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Silesian Uprisings; Silesian weavers' uprising; Slavic revolt of 983; Spartacist uprising; Stellinga; Stennes revolt; W. Wilhelminer War This page was last edited on ...
The most popular of Heine's political poems was his least typical, Die schlesischen Weber ("The Silesian Weavers"), based on the uprising of weavers in Peterswaldau in 1844. [46] [47] The front page of Marx's Vorwärts, featuring Heine's poem "Die schlesischen Weber"