Valentina Adler

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Valentina Dina Adler , also Valentine Adler (born August 5, 1898 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died July 6, 1942 in the Gulag of Akmolinsk , Soviet Union ) was an Austrian communist.

Life

Valentina Adler was the first child of Raissa Adler and the individual psychologist Alfred Adler , among her siblings was the psychiatrist Alexandra Adler . Adler completed his studies in economics in Vienna with a doctorate . At the end of the First World War , she became a member of the Social Democratic Labor Party of Austria in 1918 and of the Communist Party of Austria from 1919 . In 1921 she went to Berlin , became a member of the Communist Party of Germany and worked for a Russian trade agency. In 1924 she married the Hungarian communist Gyula Sas, who operated under the name Giulio Aquila in the Communist International . Adler worked in Berlin together with Manès Sperber in the local group of individual psychologists and wrote in 1925 in the "International Journal for Individual Psychology" the article Comments on the sociological foundations of "male protest" .

Her husband Aquila stayed in Moscow from 1929 to 1931 and was expelled from the German Reich in 1933 after power was handed over to the National Socialists . He went back to the Soviet Union and Adler followed him in 1934 after she fled Germany to Sweden . She worked in Moscow as an editor at the "Foreign Workers Publishing Cooperative". On January 22nd, 1937, both were arrested by the NKVD and imprisoned in the Lubyanka , possibly because of their collaboration with Karl Radek . Adler was also accused of her parents' contact with Leon Trotsky and she was sentenced to ten years in a labor camp on September 19, 1937 and imprisoned in a camp in Akmolinsk . Aquila was also convicted and died on August 26, 1943 in a gulag in the Far East near the city of Svobodny . When there was little prospect of deportation to Germany after the Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939 , she was not wanted as a stateless Jew in the German Reich.

Adler had met Susanne Leonhard in Butyrka prison in 1937 . After the end of the Second World War, Leonhard and Albert Einstein researched their whereabouts. Raissa Adler finally received the information in 1952 that Valentina Adler had died on July 6, 1942 in an unknown place. In 1956 she was politically rehabilitated in the USSR.

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Individual evidence

  1. Clara Kenner: Valentine Adler. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 13-15.
  2. a b c d e Aquila, Giulio , Biographical information from the handbook of the German communists at the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship