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Otto Bauer
Otto Bauer was an Austrian politician who was one of the founders and leading thinkers of the Austromarxists who sought a middle ground between social democracy and revolutionary socialism. He was a member of the Austrian Parliament from 1907 to 1934, deputy party leader of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) from 1918 to 1934, and Foreign Minister of the Republic of German-Austria in 1918…
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Born 5 September 1881 · Died 4 July 1938 · Q11730
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It is not the great geological catastrophe that has reshaped the world; no, it is the small revolutions in the imperceptible, in the atoms that can no longer be studied even with a microscope, that change the world, that produce the force that then in one day is released in a geological catastrophe. The small, the imperceptible, what we call detail work, that is the truly revolutionary.
2026· 1 entry
1986· 1 entry
Kreisky considered Bauer among the great men he had met "despite some misjudgments of a superior intellect"
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1980· 1 entry
Told the story of her great-grandmother in her novel Ida, published in the summer of 2018
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1975· 1 entry
But it no longer had any impact on party policy
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1948· 1 entry
His urn was brought to Vienna and on 12 November 1950 reburied in an honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery next to those of Victor Adler and Karl Seitz
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1945· 2 entries
And returned to Austria, it would hardly have been possible to avoid a dispute about the mistakes of the old leadership, but with him serving as a dead icon who was invoked on holidays but denied in everyday life, the po
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The newly founded "Social Democratic Party of Austria (Social Democrats and Revolutionary Socialists)" (SPÖ) oriented itself around Bauer's ideological opposite, Karl Renner, who served as the first Chancellor of the Rep
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1938· 4 entries
Died 1938-07-04.
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With Nazi Germany's Anschluss of Austria, Bauer emigrated to Brussels, where at the end of March his foreign office merged with the leadership of the Revolutionary Socialists, which had fled Austria, to form the Foreign
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Again spoke out in favor of an all-German revolution (including Austria), since he did not believe that a socialist revolution in Austria alone was feasible
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Prevented a difficult dispute over the post-war direction of the SPÖ:
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1934· 1 entry
Bauer went into exile, where he continued to work for Austrian socialism until his death
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1928· 1 entry
“It is not the great geological catastrophe that has reshaped the world; no, it is the small revolutions in the imperceptible, in the atoms that can no longer be studied even with a microscope, that change the world, that produce the force that then in one day is released in a geological catastrophe. The small, the imperceptible, what we call detail work, that is the truly revolutionary.”
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1926· 1 entry
The SDAP adopted a new party program to replace the one that had been adopted in 1901
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1923· 1 entry
To counter the right-wing Heimwehr – were already in the hands of the Dollfuss government and it had cleared out a number of the Schutzbund's weapons caches
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1920· 2 entries
And his practice of advising the party to wait for the proper historical circumstances before taking action were criticized by some for facilitating Austria's move from democracy to fascism in the 1930s
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The two were married in the Stadttempel, Vienna's main synagogue; a civil marriage was not legally possible at the time
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1919· 3 entries
Otto Bauer's son Martin, born in 1919, was a successful animator and film producer in Austria who was responsible for numerous remarkable television commercials in the 1950s and 1960s.
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A certain fiscal orthodoxy, which made Bauer very skeptical of measures to create jobs during the Great Depression
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Was a successful animator and film producer in Austria who was responsible for numerous remarkable television commercials in the 1950s and 1960s
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1917· 1 entry
Because the plight of the civilian population that was going hungry due to wartime food shortages
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1914· 2 entries
Bauer met and fell in love with Helene Landau (née Gumplowicz), a married academic and journalist who was ten years his senior
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Otto Bauer rented an apartment in a middle-class building at the corner of Gumpendorfer Strasse 70 and Kasernengasse 2 in Vienna's 6th district of Mariahilf and lived there until he fled Austria in 1934
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1907· 2 entries
Bauer co-founded and until 1914 was editor of the Social Democratic monthly Der Kampf ('The Struggle'), of which he remained co-editor until 1934
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At only 26 years old, he published the 600-page work Nationalitätenfrage und Sozialdemokratie ('The Nationality Question and Social Democracy')
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1902· 1 entry
Completed his active military service after passing the reserve officer exam, and was transferred as a reservist to the Infantry Regiment Frederik VIII King of Denmark, No
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1900· 1 entry
Bauer began to be politically active in the Social Democratic Workers' Party, as the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) was called before 1945, and became a member of the Free Association of Socialist Students
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1897· 1 entry
With 14 deputies, won 87 seats, the second strongest showing behind the conservative Christian Social Party
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1881· 1 entry
Born 1881-09-05.
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