Oswald Dietz was born in Germany in 1824. He became an architect. He participated in the German revolution of 1848-1849. When the German uprising was suppressed, Dietz escaped to London. Oswald Dietz became a member of the August Willich

August Willich

August Willich , born Johann August Ernst von Willich, was a military officer in the Prussian Army and a leading early proponent of Communism in Germany. In 1847 he discarded his title of nobility...

-Karl Schapper

Karl Schapper

Karl Schapper was a German socialist and labour leader. He was one of the pioneers of the labour movement in Germany and an early associate of Wilhelm Weitling and Karl Marx.-Young Germany and Mazzini:...

sectarian proletarian group within the Communist League. Oswald Diest also participated in the Civil war in the United States of America. Diest died in 1864.