Alois Buttinger

Alois Buttinger (from 1950 first name Louis) was an Austrian, an official of the Social Democratic Workers' Party ( SDAP ) and an advisory member of the London office of the foreign representative of the Austrian socialists.

Curriculum vitae

Prior to 1934 Buttinger led the Sonnenhof Lind Children's Center in Villach. After the banning of the SDAP in 1934 he fled to England, but soon returned back again. In 1938, he fled again to London, where he became involved in refugee Help program and 1941 advisory member in the London office of the foreign representative of the Austrian Socialists ( AVOES ) was. In 1941, he was able to leave with his wife Friedl in the U.S., the appropriate visa had worried his brother Joseph Butt Inger. Joseph was already reached in the U.S. in early 1940 as Chairman of the AVOES and the Revolutionary Socialists (RS) with its native in the U.S. Ms Muriel Gardiner Buttinger. In the U.S., Alois Buttinger operated no longer politically, but founded in 1950 as Louis Buttinger Camp Hillcroft, a summer camp for children, which is still run by his family.