Ignaz Auer

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,^[1] and joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1866. In 1872, he moved to Berlin as a saddler,^[2] where he met and became friends with Eduard Bernstein, later an influential Marxist theoretician.^[3] He was an active participant in the unity congress of 1875 at Gotha, which founded the Social Democratic Party of Germany,^[1] (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.^[4] 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."^[5] Auer died in Berlin on 10 April 1907.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Berger 1995, p. 34.
^ Ettelt & Krause 1975, p. 340.
^ Steger 1997, p. 33.
^ Heuss 1971, p. 29.
^ 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 by Friedrich Ludwig Leuschner	Reichstag Deputy for Glauchau-Meerane 1884–1887	Succeeded by Friedrich Ludwig Leuschner
Preceded by Friedrich Ludwig Leuschner	Reichstag Deputy for Glauchau-Meerane 1890–10 April 1907	Succeeded by Friedrich Ludwig Leuschner