Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Richard M Ebeling
“Academic positions at universities in Austria, especially after the First World War, were few and far between. Mises’s well known classical-liberal, free-market views did not fit in the Vienna of his time, which was filled with socialist, Marxist, and nationalist ideas and ideologies. Furthermore, the fact that Mises came from a Jewish family meant that degrees of anti-Semitism also worked against him in various academic circles. While he did have the status of a privatdozent (an unsalaried lecturer) who could deliver a course each term at the University of Vienna with the title of Professor Extraordinary, it did not provide an income to live on. From 1909 to 1934 (except during the First World War when he served in the Austrian Army), Mises worked as an economic policy analyst and advisor to the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, Crafts, and Industry.” (02/23/26)
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/ludwig-von-mises-on-economic-policy-in-interwar-austria/