Adolf Sturmthal

Adolfsturm Thal ( born September 10, 1903 in Vienna, † June 11, 1986 in Avon, Connecticut ) was an American political scientist, sociologist and journalist of Austrian descent.

Life and work

Storm Thal in 1925 received his doctorate at the University of Vienna in Political Science and was subsequently as an employee Friedrich Adler for the Austrian Social Democracy active. He was chairman of the Austrian Association of Social Democratic students and academics. In 1934, he was expatriated from the Austro-fascist Dollfuss regime and led for several years by Zurich from refugee aid for German and Austrian emigrants. When he was persecuted by the cantonal police for " abuse of Swiss passports ," he wandered over Belgium and the UK to the USA. There he taught at various universities, political science (especially in the subject area of International Relations ). Since 1960 he was a professor of labor and industrial sociology at the University of Illinois.

In his major work on the decline of the European workers' movement ( The tragedy of European laboratory ) Storm Thal themed realtitästferne overthrow their mythology, which was also maintained, as it would have applied to defend the bourgeois state.

Writings (selection )

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