biography
| name: |
Schuschnigg, Kurt von
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pronunciation:
[shushnik]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1977)
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| biography:
| Austrian statesman and chancellor (1934–8), born in Riva, N Italy (formerly Austria–Hungary). He served in World War 1, practised law, was elected a Christian Socialist Deputy (1927), and became minister of justice (1932) and of education (1933). His attempt to prevent Hitler occupying Austria led to his imprisonment until 1945. He then lived in the USA, where he became professor of political science at St Louis University (1948–67), before returning to Austria (1967), and writing Im Kampf gegen Hitler (1969, trans The Brutal Takeover). |
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