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Rudolf Hilferding
Rudolf Hilferding was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, socialist theorist, politician and the chief theoretician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic, being almost universally recognized as the SPD's foremost theoretician of the twentieth century. He was also a physician.
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Born 10 August 1877 · Died 11 February 1941 · Q57848
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2017· 1 entry
Libcom: Rudolf Hilferding
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1941· 1 entry
Died 1941-02-11.
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1933· 2 entries
Together with his close associate Rudolf Breitscheid and other important party leaders, first to Denmark, then Saarbrücken, Paris, and finally Zurich, Switzerland
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Fled into exile, living in Zurich and then Paris, where he died in custody of the Gestapo in 1941
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1928· 1 entry
Career landmark: Reich Minister of Finance (1928–1929).
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1925· 1 entry
Kurt Tucholsky in Die Weltbühne argued that Hilferding had made the newspaper harmless and acted like a representative of the Imperial Association for Combating Social Democracy
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1923· 1 entry
Career landmark: Reich Minister of Finance (1923–1923).
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1922· 1 entry
Strongly opposed a merger of the USPD with the Communist Party of Germany, which he attacked throughout the 1920s, and instead supported the merger with the SPD, where he emerged as its most prominent and visible spok
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1919· 1 entry
Acquired German citizenship and in 1920, he was appointed to the Reich Economic Council
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1918· 1 entry
Returned to Berlin, shortly after the Republic was proclaimed and the emperor had fled
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1916· 1 entry
Was sent to Steinach am Brenner, near the Italian border, as a combat medic
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1914· 1 entry
Hilferding was one of the few social democrats who from the very start opposed the SPD's Burgfriedenspolitik and the party's support for the German war effort, including its vote for war loans
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1910· 1 entry
Which was an important theoretical milestone that has kept its importance until today
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1906· 1 entry
Gave up his job as a doctor and, following August Bebel's call, started teaching Economics and Economic history at the training center of the SPD in Berlin
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1905· 1 entry
His numerous publications have made him one of the leading social-democratic theoreticians and brought him into close contact with the party leadership of the SPÖ and of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
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1902· 1 entry
Contributed to the Social-Democratic newspaper Die Neue Zeit on economic subjects as requested by Karl Kautsky, at that time the most important Marxist theoretician worldwide and who developed a long-lasting personal
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1901· 1 entry
Began working in Vienna as a paediatrician, however not with much enthusiasm
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1893· 1 entry
Joined a group of Vienna students who weekly discussed socialist literature and later formed with young university teachers the student-organization Freie Vereinigung Sozialistischer Studenten, whose chairman was Max
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1877· 1 entry
Born 1877-08-10.
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