Victor Adler

Adler, Viktor or Victor Adler (Prague, 1852-1918, Vienna), of Jewish descent, began as a doctor in the slums of Vienna and was drawn to politics by the misery he saw there. After a short association with Georg von Schönerer's German National Party he turned to the Social Democrats, founding the Arbeiter-Zeitung in 1889, which he edited until 1918. In 1899 he was the leading spirit in the formulation of the Brünner Programm and from 1905 was a deputy in parliament and the Social Democratic Party leader. Adler was tireless in his exposure of exploitation of the working classes and in consequence served various terms of imprisonment. In later years he associated his party with the Crown, which led to the Social Democrats being derided as ‘Kaisersozialisten’; and he supported the State throughout the 1914-18 War, participating in the suppression of a strike in January 1918. In October 1918 he accepted government office. He died at his desk on 11 November, the last day of the old regime and the first of the new.

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Memorial to Victor Adler, Vienna

Victor Adler (June 24, 1852, Prague – November 11, 1918) was an Austrian Social Democratic leader.

Born in Prague, Adler received a university degree in Vienna in 1881. He founded the Socialist movement in Austria and created the Marxist journals Gleicheit (Equality) in 1886 and Arbeiterzeitung (Workers' Paper) in 1889. That year he participated in the Hainfelder Parteitag, the conference which took part in Hainfeld to form the Social Democratic Party of Austria. As a member of the provincial parliament (from 1905) he played a leading role in the fight for universal suffrage.

Before World War I, Adler was a moderate social democrat and leader of the Socialist Party in Vienna. He publicly backed the Imperial government's decision to go to war, but had private misgivings. He was the father of Friedrich Adler (assassin).

In 1918, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under the interim government of Karl Renner he advocated the Anschluss (unification) of Deutsch-Österreich with Germany. He died in Vienna.

See also

• Linz Program of 1882

References

• Victor Adler at Encyclopedia Britannica
• Victor Adler at Marxists.org

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