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Kurt Schuschnigg
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Chancellor of Austria (1897-1977)
Kurt Schuschnigg was an Austrian political leader who served as Chancellor of Austria during the 1930s, a critical period when Nazi Germany was expanding its power in Europe. He is historically significant because his government's decisions during this era, including Austria's eventual union with Nazi Germany in 1938, shaped Austria's role in World War II and its subsequent political development.
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Key facts
- President
- Wilhelm Miklas
- Vice chancellor
- Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg , Eduard Baar-Baarenfels , Ludwig Hülgerth , Edmund Glaise-Horstenau
- Preceded by
- Engelbert Dollfuss
- Succeeded by
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart
- Born
- Kurt Alois Josef Johann Edler von Schuschnigg , ( 1897-12-14 ) 14 December 1897, Reiff am Gartsee , County of Tyrol
- Died
- 18 November 1977 (1977-11-18) (aged 79), Mutters , Tyrol , Austria
- Party
- Fatherland Front (1933–1938)
- Other political affiliations
- Christian Social Party (1927–1933)
- Spouses
- Herma Masera ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1926 ; died 1935 ) Vera Fugger von Babenhausen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1938 ; died 1959 )
- Alma mater
- University of Freiburg , Innsbruck University
- Allegiance
- Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Branch service
- Austro-Hungarian Army
- Years of service
- 1915–1919
- Battles wars
- World War I Italian Front ( Prisoner of war</span>"}]]}'>POW ) Battles of the Isonzo
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kurt
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cisleithania
- Place of birth
- Riva del Garda
- Place of death
- Mutters
- Occupation
- professor
- Educated at
- University of Innsbruck
- Employer
- Saint Louis University
- Political party
- Christian Social Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Participant in
- International Military Tribunal
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- KurtVonSchuschnigg1936-3.jpg
- Work location
- St. Louis
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- Commons category
- Kurt Schuschnigg
- date of birth
- 1897-12-14
- date of death
- 1977-11-18
- name in native language
- Kurt Schuschnigg
- place of detention
- Flossenbürg concentration camp
- birth name
- Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg
- place of burial
- Mutters
- significant person
- Guido Schmidt
- P8168
- Gyula Moravcsik
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Encyclopedic overview
Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg ( German: [ˈkʊʁt ˈʃʊʃnɪk]; 14 December 1897 – 18 November 1977) was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until the 1938 Anschluss with Nazi Germany. Although Schuschnigg considered Austria a "German state" and Austrians to be Germans, he was strongly opposed to Adolf Hitler's goal to absorb Austria into the Third Reich and wished for it to remain independent.
When Schuschnigg's efforts to keep Austria independent had failed, he resigned his office. After the Anschluss he was arrested, kept in solitary confinement, and eventually interned in various concentration camps. He was liberated in 1945 by the advancing United States Army and spent most of the rest of his life in academia in the United States. Schuschnigg gained American citizenship in 1956.
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