Engelbert Dollfuss was an Austrian politician who served as Chancellor and Dictator of Austria between 1932 and 1934. Having served as Minister for Forests and Agriculture,he ascended to Federal Chancellor in 1932 in the midst of a crisis for the conservative government. This crisis culminated in the self-elimination of the Austrian Parliament,a coup sparked by the resignation of the presiding officers of the National Council. Suppressing the Socialist movement in the Austrian Civil War and later banning the Austrian Nazi Party,he cemented the rule of Austrofascism through the First of May Constitution in 1934. Later that year,Dollfuss was assassinated as part of a failed coup attempt by Nazi agents. His successor Kurt Schuschnigg maintained the regime until Adolf Hitler's Anschluss in 1938.
The Austrian People's Party is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria.
The president of Austria is the head of state of the Republic of Austria.
The Communist Party of Austria is a communist party in Austria. Established in 1918 as the Communist Party of German-Austria (KPDÖ),it is one of the world's oldest communist parties. The KPÖwas banned between 1933 and 1945 under both the Austrofascist regime and the Nazi German administration of Austria after the 1938 Anschluss.
HeinzFischer GColIH,OMRI,RSerafO,GCollSE is an Austrian politician who served as the president of Austria from 2004 to 2016. Fischer previously served as minister of science from 1983 to 1987 and as president of the National Council of Austria from 1990 to 2002. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) until 2004,he suspended his party membership as he became president.
The Heimwehr or Heimatschutz was a nationalist,initially paramilitary group that operated in the First Austrian Republic from 1920 to 1936. It was similar in methods,organization,and ideology to the Freikorps in Germany. The Heimwehr was opposed to parliamentary democracy,socialism and Marxism and fought in various skirmishes against left-wing and foreign groups during the 1920s and 1930s. Some of its regional groups also opposed Nazism while others favored it. In spite of its anti-democratic stance,the Heimwehr developed a political wing called the Heimatblock that was close to the conservative Christian Social Party and took part in both the cabinet of Chancellor Carl Vaugoin in 1930 and in Engelbert Dollfuss' right-wing government from 1932 to 1934. In 1936 the Heimwehr was absorbed into what was at the time the only legally permitted political party in Austria,the Fatherland Front,and then later into the Frontmiliz,an amalgamation of militia units that in 1937 became part of Austria's armed forces.
The Lutheran World Federation is a global communion of national and regional Lutheran denominations headquartered in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva,Switzerland. The federation was founded in the Swedish city of Lund in the aftermath of the Second World War in 1947 to coordinate the activities of the many differing Lutheran churches. Since 1984,the member churches are in pulpit and altar fellowship,with common doctrine as the basis of membership and mission activity.
Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter Adalbert Schönborn,OP is a Bohemian-born Austrian Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Vienna since 1995. He was previously chairman of the Austrian Bishops' Conference from 1998 to 2020 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1998. He is a member of the Dominican Order.
The Christian Social Party was a major conservative political party in the Cisleithanian crown lands of Austria-Hungary and under the First Austrian Republic,from 1891 to 1934. The party was affiliated with Austrian nationalism that sought to keep Catholic Austria out of the State of Germany founded in 1871,which it viewed as Protestant and Prussian-dominated;it identified Austrians on the basis of their predominantly Catholic religious identity as opposed to the predominantly Protestant religious identity of the Prussians.
The First Austrian Republic,officially the Republic of Austria,was created after the signing of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 10 September 1919—the settlement after the end of World War I which ended the Habsburg rump state of Republic of German-Austria—and ended with the establishment of the Austrofascist Federal State of Austria based upon a dictatorship of Engelbert Dollfuss and the Fatherland's Front in 1934. The Republic's constitution was enacted on 1 October 1920 and amended on 7 December 1929. The republican period was increasingly marked by violent strife between those with left-wing and right-wing views,leading to the July Revolt of 1927 and the Austrian Civil War of 1934.
The Government of Austria is the executive cabinet of the Republic of Austria. It consists of the chancellor,who is the head of government,the vice chancellor and the ministers.
Religion in Austria is predominantly Christianity,adhered to by 68.2% of the country's population according to the 2021 national survey conducted by Statistics Austria. Among Christians,80.9% were Catholics,7.2% were Orthodox Christians,5.6% were Protestants,while the remaining 6.2% were other Christians,belonging to other denominations of the religion or not affiliated to any denomination. In the same census,8.3% of the Austrians declared that their religion was Islam,1.2% declared to believe in other non-Christian religions,and 22.4% declared they did not belong to any religion,denomination or religious community.
Michael Mayr was an Austrian politician,who served as Chancellor of Austria in the First Austrian Republic from July 1920 to June 1921. He was a member of the Christian Social Party,and by profession a historian.
Austria,formally the Republic of Austria,is a landlocked country in Central Europe,lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states,one of which is the capital,Vienna,the most populous city and state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest,the Czech Republic to the north,Slovakia to the northeast,Hungary to the east,Slovenia and Italy to the south,and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The landlocked country occupies an area of 83,879 km2 (32,386 sq mi) and has a population of around 9 million.
Hans Сhristian Friedrich Schmidt is a German politician serving as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina since August 2021. He is a member of the Christian Social Union.
Christian Kern is an Austrian businessman and former politician who served as Chancellor of Austria from 17 May 2016 to 18 December 2017 and chairman of the Social Democratic Party from 25 June 2016 to 25 September 2018.
Gero Storjohann was a German politician who served in the Bundestag from 2002 until his death in 2023. A member of the Christian Democratic Union,Storjohann had served as the vice chairman of the Committee on Petitions from 2005. During his tenure,Storjohann was an advocate for improvements of transportation infrastructure,particularly for bicycles.
Dominik Nepp is an Austrian politician who has been leader of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) in Vienna since 2019. He has been non-executive deputy Mayor and city councillor in the government of Vienna since 2017.
Nurten Yılmaz is an Austrian politician and former member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party,she represented Vienna North West from October 2013 to December 2022. She was a member of the Municipal Council and Landtag of Vienna from April 2001 to October 2013.
