Ignaz Auer (German:[ˈaʊɐ]; 19 April 1846 – 10 April 1907) was a GermanSocial Democratic politician who served as a member of theGerman Reichstag for theGlauchau-Meerane Reichstag constituency intermittently between 1884 and 1906.
He was born inDommelstadl,Kingdom of Bavaria, in 1846, the son of a butcher,[1] and joined theSocial Democratic Workers' Party in 1866. In 1872, he moved toBerlin as a saddler,[2] where he met and became friends withEduard Bernstein, later an influential Marxist theoretician.[3] He was an active participant in the unity congress of 1875 atGotha, which founded theSocial 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 democraticreformism theoretically as harmful to its real political practice.[4] He remarked to Bernstein during the controversy over the latter's theory ofrevisionism, "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]
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| Preceded by Friedrich Ludwig Leuschner | Reichstag Deputy forGlauchau-Meerane 1890–10 April 1907 | Succeeded by Friedrich Ludwig Leuschner |
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