Victor Adler
| Victor Adler | |
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Adler about 1900
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| Foreign Minister of Austria | |
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In office 30 October 1918 – 11 November 1918* |
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| Chancellor | Karl Renner |
| Preceded by |
Gyula Andrássy, Jr. (Austria-Hungary) |
| Succeeded by | Otto Bauer |
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| Born |
24 June 1852 Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 11 November 1918 (aged 66) Vienna, Austria |
| Political party | Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP) |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Profession | Neurologist |
| Religion | Judaism |
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Victor Adler (24 June 1852 – 11 November 1918) was an Austrian politician, a leader of the labour movement and founder of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP).
Adler was born in Prague, the son of a Jewish merchant, who came from Leipnik in Moravia. His family moved to the Leopoldstadt borough of Vienna when he was three years old. He attended the renowned Catholic Schottenstift gymnasium, together with Heinrich Friedjung one of the few Jewish students, whereafter he studied chemistry and medicine at the University of Vienna. Having graduated in 1881, he worked as assistant of Theodor Meynert at the psychiatric department of the General Hospital.
In 1878 he had married his wife Emma, their son Friedrich was born in 1879. From 1882 to 1889 the couple resided at 19 Berggasse in the Alsergrund borough of Vienna, an address that later became famous as the office of Sigmund Freud (the present-day Sigmund Freud Museum).
Adler initially supported the German national movement led by Georg Schönerer and worked on the 1882 Linz Program. However, Schönerer's increasingly antisemitic policies, culminating in the amendment of an Aryan paragraph, led to an estrangement with Adler, who focussed on social issues. From 1886 he published the Marxist journal Gleichheit (Equality), covering the working conditions of the Wienerberger brick factory and agitating against the truck system. After Gleichheit was banned, he issued the Arbeiter-Zeitung (Workers' Newspaper) from 1889. Adler travelled to Germany and Switzerland, where he met with Friedrich Engels, August Bebel and Karl Liebknecht. He was charged several times for his activities and spent nine months in prison.
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