!!!Adler, Friedrich

b. Vienna, July 9, 1879, 
d. Zurich (Switzerland), Jan. 2, 1960, Social Democrat, son of Victor  
Adler; first, an editor and university lecturer in Zurich, 1911-1914 
secretary of the Austrian Social Democratic Party. As leader of the 
left-wing spoke against the warmongers in his party in the magazine 
"Der Kampf", the theoretical organ of Social Democracy. In protest at 
the state of emergency and in an attempt to rouse the working class, 
he shot and killed the Prime Minister Count Karl  Stuergkh on Oct. 21, 
1916. The death sentence was reduced to a prison sentence and 
eventually he was pardoned in 1918. He countered the communist 
influence in the Viennese Workers´ Councils (Arbeiterraete), 
where he was chairman from 1918 to 1923. 1923-1940 Secretary of the 
International Socialist Workers´ Federation (2nd International) 
in Zurich, from 1935 in Brussels; dissolved the Austrian Social 
Democrats´ foreign mission in 1939. Emigrated to the USA in 1940 
but returned to Europe in 1946, where he took up permanent residence 
in Zurich. Contrary to the platform of the Austrian Social Democratic 
Party (SPOe) he supported the idea of a Pan-German social-democratic 
system until he died.

!Works
Die Erneuerung der Internationale, 1918; Vor dem 
Ausnahmegericht, 1923; Das Stalin´sche Experiment und der 
Sozialismus, 1932.

!Literature
R. Ardelt, F. A., 1984; J. Zimmermann, "Von der 
Bluttat eines Unseligen". Das Attentat F. A. und seine 
Rezeption in der soz.-dem. Presse, 2000.



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