Hilferding-Weg

The naming of the path after Margarete, Rudolf and Karl Hilferding took place on April 1, 2003. It commemorates Dr. med. Margarete Hilferding (1871–1942), her husband Dr. med. Rudolf Hilferding (1877–1941), and their son Dr. Karl Hilferding (1905–1942). All three fell victim to the terror of the National Socialists. Rudolf Hilferding was a social democratic financial politician, editor, leading theorist of the "Austromarxism" and a publicist ("Das Finanzkapital", 1910). He lived in Germany from 1907, and served as Finance Minister there in 1923 and 1928/1929. He emigrated to France in 1933 and died in 1941 while in Gestapo custody in Paris.