Max Wexler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Wexler

Romanian socialist

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1870

Place of Birth: Iași, Iași County, Romania

Date of Death: 14-May-1917

Profession: politician, translator, journalist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Max Wexler (also spelled Vexler or Wechsler, November 4, 1870 – May 14, 1917) was a Romanian socialist activist and journalist, regarded as one of the main Marxist theorist of the early Romanian workers' movement.
Active in the first Romanian socialist party, the Romanian Social Democratic Workers' Party, he became dissatisfied with the party's passivity and its failure to openly support political rights for the Romanian Jews, initiating a separate Jewish socialist group.
Following the party's demise, he was one of the main activists for the revival of the socialist movement in Iasi, introducing to Marxism many future leaders of the Romanian socialist parties.
Sympathetic to the 1917 February Revolution, he was arrested after attempting to gain the support of Russian soldiers present in the country during World War I.
Wexler was assassinated in custody shortly after, with the Romanian authorities suppressing any formal enquiry into his death.