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    Miklas graduated from high school at Seitenstetten and went on to study history and geography at the University of Vienna. From 1905 to 1922, Miklas was...
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    President Wilhelm Miklas to recall the government of Dollfuss and initiate new elections to reinstate the National Council. The constitution gave Miklas the...
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    Federal Government, was offered the office of Chancellor by President Wilhelm Miklas, also a member of the Christian-Social Party. Dollfuss refused to reply...
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    governed by emergency decree. His fellow CS party member, President Wilhelm Miklas did not take any action to restore democracy. Chancellor Dollfuss then...
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    plebiscite, Göring telephoned Schuschnigg and Austrian head of state Wilhelm Miklas to demand Schuschnigg's resignation, threatening invasion by German...
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    Depression, all parties agreed to suspend the election in favor of having Wilhelm Miklas reelected by the Federal Assembly. Three years later, Engelbert Dollfuss...
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    signing the "agreement" before leaving Berchtesgaden. The president, Wilhelm Miklas, was reluctant to endorse the agreement but eventually did so. Then...
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    Photography Julius Ernest Wilhelm Fučík (1872–1916) composer and conductor; military musician in Krems, 1891-1894 Wilhelm Miklas (1872–1956), politician...
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    was succeeded by Rudolf Ramek. In December 1928 the Christian Social Wilhelm Miklas was elected to the post of Federal President and on 7 December 1929...
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    Austrian Chancellor. Under growing pressure from Berlin, President Wilhelm Miklas reluctantly appointed Seyss-Inquart his successor. On the next day,...
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    Albert Lebrun Walter von Loë Claudio López, 2nd Marquess of Comillas Wilhelm Miklas Maximilian Karl Lamoral O'Donnell Francisco Franco Angelo de Mojana...
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  • Metternich (1773 - 1859), Austrian foreign minister, diplomat and statesman Wilhelm Miklas, last president of the first Republic Alois Mock, former vice chancellor...
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    gymnasium in nearby Nikolsburg (Mikulov), where one of his teachers was Wilhelm Jerusalem. From 1890 to 1896 he studied law at the University of Vienna...
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    assistance, Schuschnigg resigned on the evening of 11 March, but President Wilhelm Miklas refused to appoint Seyss-Inquart as Chancellor. At 8:45 pm, Hitler,...
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  • onwards were members of the Christian Social Party, and so was President Wilhelm Miklas, who succeeded Hainisch in 1928. The Social Democrats remained in opposition...
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    when, according to his own account, he saved the Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas from being shot by Austrian Nazis. After the 1939 Invasion of Poland...
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    11 to 13 March 1938. Between 23:00 and 24:00 on 11 March, President Wilhelm Miklas appointed Seyss-Inquart Chancellor. At 1:30 on 12 March, Hugo Jury announced...
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    e Presidents of Austria First Republic Karl Seitz Michael Hainisch Wilhelm Miklas Second Republic Karl Renner Theodor Körner Adolf Schärf Franz Jonas...
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    e Presidents of Austria First Republic Karl Seitz Michael Hainisch Wilhelm Miklas Second Republic Karl Renner Theodor Körner Adolf Schärf Franz Jonas...
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    Starhemberg briefly came to head the government and the Front. As President Wilhelm Miklas proclaimed Austria was not yet ready for a "Heimwehr Cabinet", called...
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  • Haft an eine Freundin. He was pardoned by the President of Austria, Wilhelm Miklas, and released in October 1930. Halsman left Austria for France, began...
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    1933 Date dissolved 25 July 1934 People and organisations President Wilhelm Miklas Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss Vice-Chancellor Emil Fey Ernst Rüdiger...
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    e Presidents of Austria First Republic Karl Seitz Michael Hainisch Wilhelm Miklas Second Republic Karl Renner Theodor Körner Adolf Schärf Franz Jonas...
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    Engelbert Dollfuss was designated Chancellor of Austria by President Wilhelm Miklas. Dollfuss formed another right-wing government together with the Landbund...
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    Emmanuel III, France's Albert Lebrun and Pierre-Étienne Flandin, Austria's Wilhelm Miklas, Japan's Emperor Hirohito, and Britain's King George V. In Berlin, a...
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    writer (b. 1896) March 20 Fanny Durack, Australian swimmer (b. 1889) Wilhelm Miklas, 3rd president of Austria (b. 1872) March 22 Eduardo Lonardi, 30th president...
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  • 12 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958) October 15 Wilhelm Miklas, 3rd President of Austria (d. 1956) Edith Wilson, First Lady of the...
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    e Presidents of Austria First Republic Karl Seitz Michael Hainisch Wilhelm Miklas Second Republic Karl Renner Theodor Körner Adolf Schärf Franz Jonas...
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    Landwirtschaft Grand Cross of the Order of the White Lion, Czechoslovakia (1926) Wilhelm Exner Medal, 1926 Francisca de Haan; Krasimira Daskalova; Anna Loutfi (1...
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  • 1865 – Charles W. Clark, American singer and educator (d. 1925) 1872 – Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria (d. 1956)...
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