34 Facts About Rudolf Hilferding

Rudolf Hilferding was born in Vienna, where he received a doctorate having studied medicine.

Rudolf Hilferding was the first to put forward the theory of organized capitalism.

Rudolf Hilferding was the main defender of Marxism from critiques by Austrian School economist and fellow Vienna resident Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk.

On 10 August 1877, Rudolf Hilferding was born in Vienna into a prosperous Jewish family, consisting of his parents, Emil Hilferding, a merchant, and Anna Hilferding, and of Rudolf's younger sister, Maria.

Rudolf Hilferding attended a public gymnasium from which he graduated as an average student, allowing him access to the university.

Rudolf Hilferding became one of the staunchest supporters of Victor Adler, founder of the SPO.

Rudolf Hilferding spent much of his leisure time studying political economy, where his real interest lay, but he would not give up his profession until his first publications gave him success.

Rudolf Hilferding wrote two significant essays concerning the use of the general strike as a political weapon.

Karl Renner, Adler and Rudolf Hilferding founded an association to improve the worker's education, which established Vienna's first school for workers in 1903.

Rudolf Hilferding married the doctor Margarete Honigsberg, whom he had met in the socialist movement and who was eight years his senior.

Rudolf Hilferding had a Jewish background, had made her exams at the University of Vienna, and was a regular contributor to.

Rudolf Hilferding had to give up this job and was replaced by Rosa Luxemburg after being threatened with eviction by the Prussian police in 1907.

Bebel had recommended Rudolf Hilferding for this job, after there was a conflict between the editors of and the party executive.

Rudolf Hilferding's appointment was meant to raise the share of Marxism in the editing.

Rudolf Hilferding was supported by his fellow Austrian, Karl Kautsky, who was his mentor and whom he succeeded in the 1920s as the chief theoretician of the SPD.

When World War I broke out in 1914, Rudolf Hilferding was one of the few social democrats who from the very start opposed the SPD's and the party's support for the German war effort, including its vote for war loans.

In October 1915, the SPD leadership fired all these opposing editors, but Rudolf Hilferding had already been drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army as a medic long before.

At first, Rudolf Hilferding was stationed in Vienna, where he led the field hospital for epidemics.

Rudolf Hilferding lived together with his wife and his two sons, Karl and Peter, who was born in 1908.

Rudolf Hilferding joined the anti-war Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1918.

In 1925, Kurt Tucholsky in argued that Rudolf Hilferding had made the newspaper harmless and acted like a representative of the Imperial Association for Combating Social Democracy.

Rudolf Hilferding spent months with this project, which was, in spite of support among the workers, not a priority for the government.

Rudolf Hilferding gave a speech before the and presented a plan to socialize industry.

Rudolf Hilferding, who had accused the SPD of trying to oust the USPD from government, supported this decision.

Rudolf Hilferding wrote articles in the and made suggestions how they should be implemented, which were sharply criticized by Lenin.

Rudolf Hilferding later described the USSR as "the first totalitarian state" and a "totalitarian state economy".

Rudolf Hilferding contributed to stabilizing the mark, but was unable to stop the inflation.

Rudolf Hilferding had to relinquish this position because of pressure from the President of the Reichsbank, Hjalmar Schacht, causing his fall in December 1929 by imposing to the government his conditions for the obtainment of a loan.

Rudolf Hilferding remained the leading economist of the SPD after leaving office.

Rudolf Hilferding lived in Zurich until 1938 and from 1939 on in Paris, France.

Rudolf Hilferding was brought to Paris and was severely maltreated on the way.

Rudolf Hilferding's death was not officially announced until the fall of 1941.

Fry, among others, believed that Rudolf Hilferding was murdered by the Gestapo on the orders of Adolf Hitler or another senior Nazi Party official.

Rudolf Hilferding saw this as part of the inevitable concentration of capital called for by Marxian economics.