Died 1977-11-18.
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Kurt Schuschnigg
Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg was a Slovene-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 T…
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politics · Chancellor of Austria from 1934 to 1938 · jurist · politician · diplomat · pedagogue · lawyer · professor · university teacher · also Kurt Schuschnigg, Kurt Edler von Schuschnigg, Kurt von Schuschnigg, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, Kurt Alois Josef Johann Edler von Schuschnigg, Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg
Born 15 December 1897 · Died 18 November 1977 · Q738635
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1945· 1 entry
By the advancing US Army and spent most of the rest of his life in academia in the United States
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1938· 1 entry
But lost his second wife, Vera Fugger von Babenhausen (née Countess Czernin), in 1959
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1936· 2 entries
Career landmark: Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria (1936–1936).
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Of Schuschnigg: "It would not be too much to say that he is as much a prisoner of the Italians now [as he was during World War I]—if the Germans don't get him next week
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1934· 1 entry
Career landmark: Federal Chancellor of Austria (1934–1938).
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research (1933–1934).
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1932· 1 entry
Career landmark: Federal Minister of Justice (1932–1933).
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1927· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the National Council of Austria (1927–1930).
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Was elected to the Nationalrat, then the youngest parliamentary deputy
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1897· 1 entry
Born 1897-12-15.
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