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Ignaz Auer in c. 1895

Ignaz Auer (19 April 1846 – 10 April 1907) was a Bavarian Social Democratic politician who served as a member of the German Reichstag for the Glauchau-Meerane Reichstag constituency intermittently between 1884 and 1906.

Biography

He was born in Dommelstadl in 1846, the son of a butcher, and joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1866. In 1872, he moved to Berlin as a saddler, where he met and became friends with Eduard Bernstein, later an influential Marxist theoretician. He was an active participant in the unity congress of 1875 at Gotha, which founded the Social Democratic Party of Germany, (SPD) and later became Party Secretary of the SPD. Though on the right of the party, Auer was a pragmatist and viewed attempts to formulate social democratic reformism theoretically as harmful to its real political practice. He remarked to Bernstein during the controversy over the latter's theory of revisionism, "What you call for, my dear Ede, is something which one neither admits openly nor puts to a formal vote; one simply gets on with it." Auer died in Berlin on 10 April 1907.

References

  1. ^ Berger 1995, p. 34.
  2. Ettelt & Krause 1975, p. 340.
  3. Steger 1997, p. 33.
  4. Heuss 1971, p. 29.
  5. Berger & Braun 2015, p. 184.

Sources

  • Berger, Stefan (1995). "Auer, Ignaz". In Lane, A. Thomas (ed.). Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders. Vol. 1. Westport and London: Greenwood Press. p. 34. ISBN 0313298998.
  • Berger, Stefan; Braun, Stefan (2015). "Socialism". In Jefferies, Matthew (ed.). The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany. London and New York: Routledge. pp. 177–192. ISBN 978-1317043218.
  • Ettelt, Werner; Krause, Hans-Dieter (1975). Der Kampf um eine marxistische Gewerkschaftspolitik in der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung, 1868 bis 1878 (in German). East Berlin: Verlag Tribüne.
  • Heuss, Theodor (1971). Friedrich Ebert 1871/1971. Bonn: Inter Nationes.
  • Steger, Manfred B. (1997). The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism: Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521582008.
Reichstag of the German Empire
Preceded byFriedrich Ludwig Leuschner Reichstag Deputy for Glauchau-Meerane
1884–1887 		Succeeded byFriedrich Ludwig Leuschner
Preceded byFriedrich Ludwig Leuschner Reichstag Deputy for Glauchau-Meerane
1890–10 April 1907 		Succeeded byFriedrich Ludwig Leuschner


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