biography
pronunciation:
[hilferding]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1877–1941)
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| biography:
| German politician, physician, and social scientist, born in Vienna, Austria. Author of texts on Austromarxism and editor of Vorwärts (1907–16), he was a pacifist member of Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (USPD) and later of Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) of which he was a committee member. He was twice German finance minister in the 1920s. After the Nazis came to power in 1933 he lived in France and died after a suicide attempt following arrest by the Gestapo. |
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