(1881 -1938)
Austrian socialist leader. Born in Vienna, he studied at the University of Vienna and co-founded the monthly Der Kampf. As a leader of the neo-Marxian school in Vienna, he was secretary to the socialist faction in the Austrian Parliament. During World War I he fought in the Austrian army and was a prisoner-of-war in Russia. In 1918 he became the first foreign minister of the Austrian Republic. In 1934 he took a leading part in the uprising of the workers in Vienna. He was forced to find refuge in Czechoslovakia and Paris.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.