Life as well as work

Hertz attended the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium in Vienna in addition to studied after the Austro-Hungarian Bank 1892–1902 PhD. During his studies, Hertz joined the Austrian Social Democracy.

Before graduation already he worked as a freelance writer in Vienna. This he add on after the promotion. 1905-1906 he was the editor of The Way. Weekly journal of politics and culture Vienna-Leipzig. Then he worked for a trade association and a Swiss insurance company. In 1914, he married Edith Hirsch, a physician, with whom he had two children.

In First World War, Friedrich Otto Hertz served in the Austro-Hungarian army, in the last two years of war in the Scientific Committee for the war economy of the k.u.k. War Ministry in Vienna. In the first twelve post-war years up until 1930, Hertz worked as a Counselor with the designation of a counselor at the Austrian Federal Chancellery in Vienna. He served as department head, in specific on the benefit of the relations of Austria to the UK, the USA and with the successor states of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and trade.

1930-1933 Hertz was a professor of world economy and sociology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in Halle an der Saale Saxony-Anhalt. After the takeover by the Nazis, he was dismissed from good 1 May 1933 and fled to Vienna, where he lived until 1938 as a private scholar. He was attacked by the Nazi regime as a "Jew, Freemason and pacifist" for his publications on issues of line and nationality.

In April 1938 he emigrated with his category to London and in 1946 he received British citizenship under the take of Frederick Hertz. During the war and postwar years he was active in main positions in Austrian émigré organizations. Until his death he lived as a private scholar in London who reported lectures and talks.