Kurt Schuschnigg

✶December 14, 1897

†November 18, 1977

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About their life

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 Third Reich and wished for it to remain independent.

Chancellor of Austria from 1934 to 1938

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