Adelheid Popp, 1892 11 February 1869 |Died||7 March 1939 |Known
for||Leader of the women's movement of Austria Served in the
Parliament of Austria Early life  Adelheid Popp, born Adelheid
Dworschak, was born 11 February 1869, into a poor working-class
family in Inzersdorf, Vienna, Austria (now part of Liesing). Out
of 15 children, only five survived in the family, and Popp was
the youngest of the five. Her father, Adalbert, was a weaver and
an abusive alcoholic. Popp grew up in a violent environment, and
at six years old her father died, leaving the family more
impoverished than before. She received three years of formal
education, only to be to have to leave school at the age of 10
to help support her family. She worked briefly as a domestic
worker, as a seamstress' apprentice crocheting handkerchief's,
and finally as a factory worker. In the mid-1880s she became
interested in politics. A friend of her brother's introduced her
to the working class social movement and social democratic
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