Born in Vienna in 1909, Drucker stumbled onto the writing of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard when he was only 19. To give you a sense of what Drucker was all about, he began studying Danish simply so that he could read Kierkegaard’s at-that-time-still-untranslated writings. By 1933, he was a lecturer in the German city of Frankfurt. When the Nazi government fired all the Jewish professors on staff, Drucker decided he could not and would not be complicit in the abuses of the autocratic regime. He left for London a couple of days later.
-Ari Weinzweig, from this issue
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