Hugo Bettauer, a Jewish writer and journalist, was born in Baden in 1872, traveled the world, lived in Zurich, New York (including American citizenship), Berlin, Munich and Hamburg, among other places, and was shot dead in the Vienna in 1925 by an extreme right-wing anti-Semite, who was later acquitted by justice, which the Austrian press justified by Bettauer's "immorality." He was progressive, critical of the society of his time and a pioneer in the defense of the emancipation of women. His novels were even later analyzed, with political and partisan intentions, by members of the SS. Among these texts we can cite Der Kampf um Wien [The struggle for Vienna] (1922/23), Die Freudlose Gasse (1923; in his film version Greta Garbo acted) or Das entfesselte Wien [Unbridled Vienna] (1924). His son Helmut was deported in 1942 to Auschwitz, where he presumably died.