Kurt Schuschnigg
Politician
1897 – 1977
Who was Kurt Schuschnigg?
Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg was Chancellor of the First Austrian Republic, following the assassination of his predecessor, Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss, in July 1934, until Nazi Germany’s annexing of Austria, in March 1938. He was opposed to Hitler’s ambitions to absorb Austria into the Third Reich. After his efforts to keep Austria independent had failed, he resigned his office. After the invasion he was arrested by the Germans, 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.
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- Born
- Dec 14, 1897
Riva del Garda - Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Austrians
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Austria
- Profession
- Died
- Nov 18, 1977
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on July 23, 2013
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