Oswald Dietz (May 27, 1823 in

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– March 9, in

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) was a German freedom fighter and German-American engineer and politician.

Biography

He became an architect. He participated in the German revolution of 1848-1849. When the German uprising was suppressed, Dietz escaped to

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. Oswald Dietz became a member of the

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sectarian proletarian group within the Communist League. Oswald Diest also participated in the Civil war in the United States of America. Dietz died in 1898.''Dietz, Oswald''. In: ''Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie'' volume 2: Bohacz – Ebhardt, 2001, p 541.

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1823 births 1898 deaths German revolutionaries People of the American Civil War Members of the Socialist Labor Party of America 19th-century German architects {{Germany-architect-stub