Hilferding, Rudolf#
b. Vienna, Aug. 10, 1877, d. Paris (France, during detention by Gestapo), Feb. 12, 1941, Social Democratic financial politician, editor, one of the leading theoreticians of Austro-Marxism; from 1907 lived in Germany, where he was Minister of Finance in 1923 and 1928/29; in 1933 emigrated to France.
Works#
Das Finanzkapital, 1910; Marx-Studien, 5 vols., 1904-23 (ed. with M. Adler).Literature#
G. Pietranera, R. H. und die oekonom. Theorie der Soz.-Dem., 1974; F. P. Wagner, R. H., 1996; W. Smaldone, R. H., 1998; B. Schefold, R. H. und die Idee des organisierten Kapitalismus, 2000.