Drucker, Peter Ferdinand (19 November 1909–11 November 2005), author, professor, and management consultant, was born in Vienna, the elder of two sons of Adolph Drucker, an economist and lawyer who worked as a senior official in Austria-Hungary’s Ministry of Economics, and Caroline Drucker, who had studied medicine. His parents were born Jewish but raised their family as Protestants. They lived in a suburban house, designed by a prominent local architect, that had views of vineyards and the Vienna Woods. Drucker received an informal education at his parents’ frequent dinner parties, which were attended by economists, doctors, mathematicians, philosophers, artists, and musicians (his grandmother had played piano with the Vienna Philharmonic). When Drucker was eight years old, his father introduced him to Sigmund Freud at a Vienna restaurant....
