Adolf Molnar, writer and journalist, was born in Vienna in 1905 and died in Espoo, Finland, in 1988. Molnar joined the Communist Party of Austria in 1923, but was forced to leave it in 1930. From 1927 to 1929 he worked as a sports editor. After marrying Hanna Raiman, who was Jewish, he fled to Finland in 1938 via the Netherlands and the Baltic states.

He served as a volunteer in the Finnish Army and, during that time, he wrote the history of his battalion: Vi låg framför Hangö, 1942. After the end of World War II, he worked primarily as a translator, but also wrote his own works, such as Sonne über dem Leben (Sun Over Life) in 1943.

His autobiographical work Unstet und flüchtig: Eine Lebensgeschichte (Restless and Fleeting: A Life Story) was published in Austria in 1982. The novel Des deutschen Volkes Wunderborn.followed in 1983.