Vienna

===Red Vienna===
[[Image:Döbling (Wien) - Karl-Marx-Hof.JPG|thumb|220px|The [[Karl-Marx-Hof]] remains symbolic for ''Red Vienna'']]
The city of Vienna became the center of [[socialist]] politics from 1919 to 1934, a period referred to as "[[Red Vienna]]" (''Das rote Wien''). After a new breed of socialist politicians won the local elections they engaged in a brief but ambitious municipal experiment.<ref>{{cite book | author1= Richard Cockett  |title=Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World |publisher= Yale University Press |year=2023 |page=71 |isbn= 9780300266535 }}</ref> Social democrats had won an absolute majority in the May 1919 municipal election and ruled the city council with 100 of the 165 seats. [[Jakob Reumann]] was appointed by the city council as city mayor.<ref>{{cite book | author1= Richard Cockett  |title=Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World |publisher= Yale University Press |year=2023 |page=77 |isbn= 9780300266535 }}</ref> The theoretical foundations of so-called [[Austromarxism]] were established by [[Otto Bauer]], [[Karl Renner]], and [[Max Adler (Marxist)|Max Adler]].<ref>{{cite book | author1= Richard Cockett  |title=Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World |publisher= Yale University Press |year=2023 |page=78 |isbn= 9780300266535 }}</ref>

In the [[Austrian Civil War]] of 1934 Chancellor [[Engelbert Dollfuss]] sent the [[Austrian Armed Forces]] to shell civilian housing such as the [[Karl Marx-Hof]] occupied by the [[Republikanischer Schutzbund]] (''socialist militia'').