User:Johninberkeley/sandbox

Ignaz Mandl (November 19, 1833 in Veszprém, Hungary – May 4, 1907 in Vienna) was a Viennese doctor and local politician.

Mandl, from a respected, well-off Hungarian-Jewish family, studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1859. He was a member of the Vienna City Council from 1874 to 1879 and from 1880 to 1889. A popular doctor for the poor and a progressive "idol of the little people", he was a role model and mentor for the young lawyer Karl Lueger, who later became Mayor of Vienna. He and Lueger, who had been elected in the 3rd district of Vienna, broke away from the municipal centrist party and joined the Democrats, supporting civic causes such as municipal ownership of city lighting and transportation. With Lueger's opportunistic turn to a policy of antisemitism, the political alliance with Mandl also ended.