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Kurt Schuschnigg

1897 – 1977 · aged 80

Chancellor of Austria (1897-1977)

Born
15 Dec 1897 · Riva del Garda
Died
18 Nov 1977 · Mutters
Part ofAustria112 BCE – todayCisleithania1791 – 1918

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 92 years
  1. 15 Dec 1897BornBorn in Riva del Garda
  2. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  3. 1927 – 1930RoleMember of the National Council of Austria
  4. 1932 – 1933RoleFederal Minister of Justice
  5. 1933 – 1934RoleFederal Minister of Education, Science and Research
  6. 1934 – 1938RoleFederal Chancellor of Austria
  7. 1936RoleFederal Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria
  8. 18 Nov 1977DiedDied in Mutters

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1897 – 1977).

  1. 1898Spanish–American War
  2. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1939 – 1945World War II
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  25. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  27. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  28. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  30. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  31. 1956Suez Crisis
  32. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  34. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  36. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  38. 1968Prague Spring
  39. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  40. 19721972 Summer Olympics

Biography

Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg (German: [ˈkʊʁt ˈʃʊʃnɪk]; 14 December 1897 – 18 November 1977) 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.

When Schuschnigg's efforts to keep Austria independent had failed, he resigned his office. After the Anschluss he was arrested, kept in solitary confinement, and eventually interned in various concentration camps. He was liberated in 1945 by the advancing US Army and spent most of the rest of his life in academia in the United States. Schuschnigg gained American citizenship in 1956.

Text from the Wikipedia article Kurt Schuschnigg, CC BY-SA 4.0

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