Talk:Otto Bauer

Early inspiration?

The first section states

an early inspiration for both the New Left movement . . .

but the EN wiki page for the New Left movement (linked) has absolutely no mention of this person.

Ed8r (talk) 17:36, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Translation of German article

I did some (relatively) minor reconstruction of the German article because it is almost entirely chronological, which fractures some of the topics, especially Bauer's attempts to unify Austria and Germany. I also added background material -- usually just a phrase or two -- where the author seemed to be assuming more knowledge of Austrian history than the average English language reader is likely to have. The background material was a bit more extensive in the section about the Linz program, where I used some information from the German article "Linzer Programm (Sozialdemokratie)", which has no English language equivalent.

Comments or feedback welcomed here or on my talk page. GHStPaulMN (talk) 11:37, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Biased Language, Not Suitable for a Wikipedia Article

"Otto Bauer's multilayered world of ideas was characterized by an impressive but fragile mixture..." "...wishful thinking..." (in multiple places) "...fascinating analyses..." "...his weaknesses as a politician." 2604:CA00:15A:DB4:0:0:26D:73E3 (talk) 17:14, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

I agree that the overly-emotive wording made the 'Analysis and wishful thinking' section especially read like an opinion rather an encyclopedia article -- and the fact that it was a direct translation from the German article doesn't make any difference. I stripped out the offending words and left it sounding quite a bit more even-keeled. Thanks for the feedback. GHStPaulMN (talk) 22:15, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Martin Bauer

AS far as I am aware, there is no independent evidence that film maker Martin Bauer was the son of Otto Bauer. Martin Bauer is not mentioned in Hanish (2011) while Czerwińska-Schupp (2017) states explicity that Otto Bauer had no children. I am not aware of any genealogical website showing Martin Bauer as the son of Otto Bauer. In the absence of better evidence, this claim should be removed as it is now being picked up by AI and given as true. ~2026-39514-68 (talk) 09:01, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

I tend to agree. The paragraph about Martin was taken from the German wiki article on Bauer, which has no attribution for it. Deutsche Biographie, which has a fairly thorough genealogy at the head of its biographies, doesn't mention any children. And the couple of biographies I found about his wife Helene don't mention children from her marriage to Otto, but the German wiki article on her does say that she had 3 from a previous marriage. GHStPaulMN (talk) 11:30, 15 July 2026 (UTC)