Valentine Adler

Valentina Dina eagle, also Valentine, (* August 5, 1898 in Vienna, † July 6, 1942 in the gulag of Akmolinsk, USSR) was an Austrian communist.

Life

Valentina Adler was the first child of Raissa eagle and the individual psychologists Alfred Adler, among her siblings was the psychiatrist Alexandra Adler. Adler graduated in economics in Vienna with a doctorate. At the end of the First World War it was in 1918 a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria from 1919, and the Communist Party of Austria. In 1921 she went to Berlin, became a member of the Communist Party of Germany and worked at a Russian trade agency. In 1924 she married the Hungarian Communists Gyula Sas, who acted in the Communist International under the name Giulio Aquila. Adler was active in Berlin together with Manès Sperber in the local chapter of the individual psychologists and wrote in 1925 in the " International Journal of Individual Psychology, " the comments post about the sociological foundations of the " masculine protest ".

Her husband Aquila stayed from 1929 to 1931 in Moscow and in 1933 expelled after handing over power to the Nazis from the German Reich. He went back to the Soviet Union and Adler followed him in 1934, after they had fled from Germany to Sweden. She worked in Moscow as an editor at the " Verlagsgenossenschaft foreign workers." On January 22, 1937 both were arrested by the NKVD and imprisoned in the Lubyanka, possibly because of its collaboration with Karl Radek. Adler was also the contact of their parents accused of Leon Trotsky and she was sentenced to 10 years in labor camp on September 19, 1937 and imprisoned in a camp in Akmolinsk. Aquila was also sentenced and died 26 August 1943 in a gulag in the Far East in the city Svobodny. As for them in 1939 after the Hitler -Stalin pact was less likely to be a deportation to Germany, she was not allowed as a stateless Jew in the German Reich.

Adler had met in 1937 Butyrka prison Susanne Leonhard. After the Second World War, Leonard and Albert Einstein inquired as to their whereabouts. Raisa Adler finally received in 1952 advised that Valentina Adler had died on July 6, 1942, to an unknown location. In 1956, she was rehabilitated politically in the USSR.