Fabier (Vienna)
The Fabier were a society of social reform intellectuals in Vienna .
The "Wiener Fabier Gesellschaft" was founded in 1893 by the economist Otto Wittelshöfer , based on the English model of the Fabian Society, which was founded in 1884 . As a result, the Fabians founded the Social Political Party in 1896 , which until 1919 played a role as a stimulator of social reforms, mainly in Vienna and Lower Austria , for example in promoting popular education or the bourgeois women's movement, and was massively opposed by Karl Lueger's Christian Socialists . Well-known Fabier were the philosopher and reform pedagogue Wilhelm Jerusalem , the social reformer and inventor Josef Popper-Lynkeus , the socialist Victor Adler , the journalist Engelbert Pernerstorfer , the later Federal President Michael Hainisch and the economist and politician Eugen von Philippovich . The meeting place was the Ronacher ballroom . The Viennese Fabier Society dissolved in 1901 in connection with Wittelshöfer's death (February 21, 1901).