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    Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg (German: [ˈʃʊʃnɪk]; 14 December 1897 – 18 November 1977) was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of...
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    advocated by leading regime politicians such as Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg. The result was an authoritarian government based on a mix of Italian...
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    increasing pressure from pro-unification activists, Austrian chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg announced that there would be a referendum on a possible union with...
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    join the governments of Chancellors Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg. In 1938, Schuschnigg resigned in the face of a German invasion, and Seyss-Inquart...
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    assassinated as part of a failed coup attempt by Nazi agents. His successor Kurt Schuschnigg maintained the regime until Adolf Hitler's Anschluss in 1938. Dollfuss...
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    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...
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    by Austrian National Socialists, Kurt Schuschnigg succeeded him as chancellor and upheld the dictatorship. Schuschnigg was replaced by Arthur Seyss-Inquart...
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    within the Habsburg Hereditary Lands. He is the first chancellor since Kurt Schuschnigg and Prince Starhemberg to belong to a noble family. Schallenberg married...
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    belief that Austrians were "better Germans"). Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg (1934–1938) called Austria the "better German state". Nevertheless...
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    remained loyal to the government. The Nazis managed to kill Dollfuss, but Kurt Schuschnigg succeeded him and the Austrofascist regime remained in power. A German...
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    Democratic Republikanischer Schutzbund. The Christian Social politician Kurt Schuschnigg was its Reichsführer. Founded in Innsbruck, Tyrol, the Ostmärkische...
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    He was succeeded as leader of the VF and Chancellor of Austria by Kurt Schuschnigg, who ruled until the invigorated Nazis forced him to resign on 11 March...
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    the 1930s. When the SDAP was outlawed by Austrofascist Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg in 1934, Bauer went into exile where he continued to work for Austrian...
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    who cooperated with his Austrian counterparts Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg, fearing retrospective territorial demands from Hitler on Südtirol...
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    Reinthaller. Reinthaller attempted to negotiate an agreement with Kurt Schuschnigg with a view to the Nazis entering the Vaterländische Front although...
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  • Second World War Marjan Šarec (born 1977) – Slovene prime minister Kurt Schuschnigg (1897–1977) – Chancellor of Austria, of Slovenian descent Danilo Türk...
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    arrested. Up to 4000 fled over the border to Germany and Yugoslavia. Kurt Schuschnigg became the new Chancellor. In Bavaria many sections of the Austrian...
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  • Austria led by Austrian Catholic Chancellors Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg. the Rexist Party in Belgium led by Léon Degrelle, a Belgian Catholic...
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    after a few days. Disenchanted by the moderate ways of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, he was ousted from power in 1936, when the Heimwehr was dissolved...
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    the 1930s the Fatherland Front government of Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg rejected current pan-German aspirations to join Austria with a Protestant-dominated...
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    Catholic Ostmärkische Sturmscharen forces led by his party fellows Kurt Schuschnigg and Leopold Figl. In 1933 Raab joined the Fatherland's Front, the newly...
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    condemned the violation of the constitution by Dollfuss and his successor Kurt Schuschnigg, but he did not openly criticise the government's policies. During...
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    Austria from potential annexation in 1934. The successor to Dollfuss, Kurt Schuschnigg, maintained the ban on Nazi activities, but also banned Austria's national...
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    Johannes Schober Carl Vaugoin Otto Ender Karl Buresch Engelbert Dollfuss Kurt Schuschnigg Arthur Seyss-Inquart Second Republic Karl Renner Leopold Figl Julius...
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    became the last Vice-Chancellor of Austria, appointed by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg under pressure from Adolf Hitler, shortly before the 1938 Anschluss...
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    she suggested they perform at concerts. When the Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg heard them over the radio, he invited them to perform in Vienna. After...
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    (re)unification with Germany, Chancellors Engelbert Dollfuss and his successor Kurt Schuschnigg wanted to maintain at least some type of independence. Dollfuss had...
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    Präsidenten seit 1920 | Parlament Österreich". www.parlament.gv.at. Pribich, Kurt (2004). Logbuch der Pfadfinderverbände in Österreich (in German). Vienna:...
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    school in Feldkirch, where he met with the later Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. He studied law at the University of Vienna, receiving his doctorate...
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  • Henke, Die amerikanische Besetzung Deutschlands, ISBN 3-486-56175-8 (in German) Kurt von Schuschnigg: Austrian Requiem, Victor Gollancz 1946, London....
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