Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg Eduard Baar-Baarenfels Ludwig Hülgerth Edmund Glaise-Horstenau
Preceded by
Engelbert Dollfuss
Succeeded by
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Minister of Defence
In office 29 July 1934 – 11 March 1938
Preceded by
Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg
Succeeded by
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Minister of Education
In office 24 May 1933 – 14 May 1936
Preceded by
Anton Rintelen
Succeeded by
Hans Pernter
Minister of Justice
In office 29 January 1932 – 10 July 1934
Preceded by
Hans Schürff
Succeeded by
Egon Berger-Waldenegg
Personal details
Born
Kurt Alois Josef Johann Edler von Schuschnigg
(1897-12-14)14 December 1897 Reiff am Gartsee, County of Tyrol, Austria-Hungary
Died
18 November 1977(1977-11-18) (aged 79) Mutters, Tyrol, Austria
Political party
Fatherland Front (1933–1938)
Other political affiliations
Christian Social Party (1927–1933)
Spouses
Herma Masera
(m. 1926; died 1935)
Vera Fugger von Babenhausen
(m. 1938; died 1959)
Children
2
Alma mater
University of Freiburg Innsbruck University
Military service
Allegiance
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Branch/service
Austro-Hungarian Army
Years of service
1915–1919
Battles/wars
World War I
Italian Front (POW)
Battles of the Isonzo
Kurt Schuschunigg's voice
Order of Schuschnigg to the Austrian army during the German invasion Recorded 11 March 1938
Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg[a] (German:[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.[1]
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.[2] Schuschnigg gained American citizenship in 1956.
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^Ryschka, Birgit (1 January 2008). Constructing and Deconstructing National Identity: Dramatic Discourse in Tom Murphy's The Patriot Game and Felix Mitterer's In Der Löwengrube. Peter Lang. ISBN 9783631581117 – via Google Books.
^Obituary of Schuschnigg in The Times, London, 19 November 1977
Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg (German: [ˈʃʊʃnɪk]; 14 December 1897 – 18 November 1977) was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of...
advocated by leading regime politicians such as Engelbert Dollfuss and KurtSchuschnigg. The result was an authoritarian government based on a mix of Italian...
assassinated as part of a failed coup attempt by Nazi agents. His successor KurtSchuschnigg maintained the regime until Adolf Hitler's Anschluss in 1938. Dollfuss...
increasing pressure from pro-unification activists, Austrian chancellor KurtSchuschnigg announced that there would be a referendum on a possible union with...
had already decided to enter the foreign service. In March 1936, the Schuschnigg government passed a law mandating a period of military service for prospective...
by Austrian National Socialists, KurtSchuschnigg succeeded him as chancellor and upheld the dictatorship. Schuschnigg was replaced by Arthur Seyss-Inquart...
remained loyal to the government. The Nazis managed to kill Dollfuss, but KurtSchuschnigg succeeded him and the Austrofascist regime remained in power. A German...
belief that Austrians were "better Germans"). Austrian Chancellor KurtSchuschnigg (1934–1938) called Austria the "better German state". Nevertheless...
within the Habsburg Hereditary Lands. He is the first chancellor since KurtSchuschnigg and Prince Starhemberg to belong to a noble family. Schallenberg married...
Catholic Ostmärkische Sturmscharen forces led by his party fellows KurtSchuschnigg and Leopold Figl. In 1933 Raab joined the Fatherland's Front, the newly...
condemned the violation of the constitution by Dollfuss and his successor KurtSchuschnigg, but he did not openly criticise the government's policies. During...
the 1930s. When the SDAP was outlawed by Austrofascist Chancellor KurtSchuschnigg in 1934, Bauer went into exile where he continued to work for Austrian...
the 1930s the Fatherland Front government of Engelbert Dollfuss and KurtSchuschnigg rejected current pan-German aspirations to join Austria with a Protestant-dominated...
Austria led by Austrian Catholic Chancellors Engelbert Dollfuss and KurtSchuschnigg. the Rexist Party in Belgium led by Léon Degrelle, a Belgian Catholic...
Austria from potential annexation in 1934. The successor to Dollfuss, KurtSchuschnigg, maintained the ban on Nazi activities, but also banned Austria's national...
Second World War Marjan Šarec (born 1977) – Slovene prime minister KurtSchuschnigg (1897–1977) – Chancellor of Austria, of Slovenian descent Danilo Türk...
over public opinion. In February 1938 when the Austrian Chancellor KurtSchuschnigg resisted Hitler's proposed merger with Germany, Heydrich intensified...
arrested. Up to 4000 fled over the border to Germany and Yugoslavia. KurtSchuschnigg became the new Chancellor. In Bavaria many sections of the Austrian...
1945, was known as der Führer ("The Leader"). Engelbert Dollfuss and KurtSchuschnigg, austrofascist leaders of Austria from 1933 to 1938, were referred...
Johannes Schober Carl Vaugoin Otto Ender Karl Buresch Engelbert Dollfuss KurtSchuschnigg Arthur Seyss-Inquart Second Republic Karl Renner Leopold Figl Julius...
he was assassinated in an Austrian Nazi coup attempt. His successor KurtSchuschnigg acknowledged the fact that Austria was a "German state" and he also...
an independent organization until 1936, when Dollfuss' successor Kurt von Schuschnigg forcibly merged it into the Front, instead creating the unabidingly...
passing phenomenon not worse than the dictatorship of Dollfuss's and Schuschnigg's authoritarian one-party system. During World War II, however, he distanced...
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