!!!Adler, Victor

b. Prague (Czech Republic), June 24, 1852, 
d. Vienna, Nov. 11, 1918, physician and social democratic politician. 
Founding father of social democracy in Austria, leader of the  Labour 
Movement and co-founder of the First Republic; initially member of the 
German Nationalist movement. 1886 founded the socialist weekly  
"Gleichheit" ("Equality"), 1889 the  "Arbeiterzeitung" ("Workers' 
Paper"). 1888/1889 united the various groups to establish the Social 
Democratic Party of Austria at the  Hainfelder Parteitag (party 
conference in Hainfeld) and in 1899 played a leading role in the 
drafting of the  Bruenner Programm. As a member of the provincial 
parliament (from 1905) he played a leading role in the fight for 
universal suffrage; in 1918 as the Secretary of State for Foreign 
Affairs under the interim government of K. Renner he advocated the 
"Anschluss" ("unification") of "Deutsch-Oesterreich" with Germany. 
Bust by A.  Hanak at the "Republik-Denkmal" ("Monument of the 
Republic") in Vienna.

!Works
Aufsaetze, Reden und Briefe, 5 vols., 1922-1929.

!Literature
M. Ermers, V. A., 1932; R. Charmatz, Lebensbilder aus der 
Geschichte Oe., 1947; F. Kreuzer, Was wir ersehnen von der Zukunft 
Fernen, 1988; L. O. Meysels, Viktor Adler - Die Biographie, 1997; 
OeBL; NOeB; NDB.



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