Adolf Sturmthal

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Adolf Sturmthal (born September 10, 1903 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died June 11, 1986 in Avon , Connecticut ) was an American political scientist, sociologist and publicist of Austrian origin.

Life

Sturmthal received his doctorate in political science from the University of Vienna in 1925 and then worked as a collaborator for Friedrich Adler for Austrian social democracy. He was chairman of the Austrian Association of Social Democratic Students and Academics . In 1934 he was expatriated by the Austro- fascist Dollfuss regime and headed the refugee aid for German and Austrian emigrants from Zurich. When he was persecuted by the cantonal police in 1936 for “misusing Swiss passports”, he emigrated to the USA via Belgium and Great Britain, which he reached in 1938. There he taught political science at various universities (especially in the field of international relations ), including at Roosevelt University in Chicago . From 1960 he was Professor of Work and Industrial Sociology at the University of Illinois .

In his main work on the decline of the European labor movement ( The tragedy of European labor ), Sturmthal addressed its unrealistic “overthrow myth”, which was still cultivated when the aim was to defend the bourgeois state.

Fonts (selection)

  • The great crisis , Zurich: Verl. Oprecht, 1937
  • A survey of literature on postwar reconstruction , New York: New York Univ., 1943.
  • The tragedy of European labor , New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1943 (also published in Great Britain in 1944, translated into Spanish and Hebrew in 1945)
  • Portrait of the American trade unions , Vienna: Verl. D. Wiener Volksbuchh., 1950.

literature

  • Georg Hauptfeld and Oliver Rathkolb (eds.): Two lives. Memories of a socialist internationalist between Austria and the USA. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-205-05047-9 .
  • Sven Papcke : German sociology in exile. Present forecast and epoch criticism 1933–1945 . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-593-34862-4 (including Chapter VII: Without an effective concept. The decline of the European labor movement from the point of view of Adolf Sturmthal , pp. 141-162).
  • Claus-Dieter Krohn: Sturmthal, Adolf. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 703-705.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 749

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the New York Times
  2. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on: Sven Papcke , Without an effective concept. The decline of the European labor movement from the perspective of Adolf Sturmthal . In: ders., German Sociology in Exile. Present forecast and epoch criticism 1933–1945 . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1993, pp. 141-162.
  3. ^ Adolf Sturmthal: Heinrich Ryffel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 20, 2012 , accessed August 7, 2016 .
  4. ^ Adolf Sturmthal Papers , see web links.
personal data
SURNAME Sturmthal, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist, sociologist and publicist of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1986
Place of death Avon, Connecticut, USA