The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Berger, Victor
BERGER, Victor, German-American
Socialist leader and United States congressman:
b. Nieder Rebbuch, Austria, 28 Feb, 1860. Having
graduated from the University of Vienna,
be emigrated to Milwaukee, Wis., where
he became a teacher of German in the public
schools. He became at once interested in the
activities of the Socialists and was one of the
founders of the American Socialist Party. In
1892 he was made editor of the Milwaukee
Daily Vorwaerts by the party local leaders.
Since then he has edited various other Socialist
papers and periodicals in Milwaukee. In 1911
was elected to Congress by the Socialist vote
of Milwaukee, being the first of that political
faith to be sent to Washington.