Family Background
Eisler was born in Leipzig, the son of Marie (née Fischer) and Rudolf Eisler, a professor of philosophy at Leipzig. His father was Jewish and his mother was Lutheran. In 1901, the family moved to Vienna. His brother was a Communist journalist, Gerhart Eisler. His sister was Ruth Fischer (née Elfriede Eisler), a leader of the German Communist Party (KPD) in the mid-1920s, who later turned into an anti-communist writing books against her former political affiliation, and even testifying against her brothers before the HUAC. According to secret information declassified in 2010, Ruth Fischer was a key agent of the American intelligence service known as "The Pond".
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