il-002820-9932934263804146-990004814620304146
type: RecordSet
has beginning date: 1938-01-01
has end date: 1977-12-31
has or had holder: il-002820
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had some members with language: ita
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: deu
identifier: 990004814620304146
is or was included in: il-002820-9932934263804146
note: portraits
note: Detailed dates of material: 1938, 1942, 1953, 1956, 1957,1959,1966-1968, 1977
note: Newspaper clippings, articles, letter, biographical information
record resource extent: [17] pages
scope and content: "Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg (between his family's ennoblement in 1898 and the 1919 abolition of the Austrian nobility, he bore the title Edler von Schuschnigg; 14 December 1897 – 18 November 1977) was an 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 accepted that Austria was a"German stat" and that Austrians were Germans, he was strongly opposed to Hitler's ambitions to absorb Austria into the Third Reich and wished for it to remain independent.When Schuschnigg's efforts to keep Austria independent had failed, he resigned his office. After the invasion by Nazi Germany he was arrested, 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" -- Wikipedia
title: Kurt von Schuschnigg