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  Karl Lueger
In 1882 Lueger's party, called the Democratic was joined by the Reform and by the German National organizations, the three uniting under the name Anti-Semitic party.
In 1895 the United Christians were strong enough to elect Lueger burgomaster of Vienna, but his majority in the council was too small to be effective and he would not accept.
Lueger's subsequent activity was devoted to moulding and guiding the policy of the Christian Socialist party and to the re-creation of Vienna, of which he remained burgomaster until his death, his re-election occurring in 1903 and 1909.
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 Lueger
Lueger decided to run for mayor of Vienna and gave his last important parliamentary statement on the "threat" of the Jews and somewhat softened his stand.
On one visit to a grade school Lueger was pained to find children who were not of school age and who had accompanied their brothers or sisters to take advantage of the free meal--he did nothing to stop the practice.
Lueger was not only able to arouse the Christian faithful against the liberals with their "progressive" views, but he also aroused the workers.
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 Karl Lueger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karl Lueger (IPA [luˈegɐ] not [lyːgɐ]) (October 24, 1844-March 10, 1910) was an Austrian politician and mayor of Vienna, known for his overtly anti-semitic and racist policies, as well as his skills as an administrator.
Known for his anti-semitism, Lueger was seen by Adolf Hitler as an inspiration for his own virulent hatred of anything Jewish.
Some observers believe that Lueger's public racism was in large part a pose to obtain votes.
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 Karl Lueger
Karl Lueger (1844-1910) was the mayor of Vienna from 1897 to 1910 and led the Christian Social Party[?] which took political power from the Austrian Liberals[?] in Vienna and combatted the Social Democrats.
A faction in the Austrian parliament[?], the Christian Social Party won Vienna city council in 1895 and subsequently helped Lueger win mayoralty.
Known for his anti-semitism, Lueger was credited by Adolf Hitler with the latter's more virulent form of anti-semitism.
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 TheAge - Travel
Lueger was Vienna's mayor at the turn of the 20th century, a great man for infrastructure but also the person credited - or discredited - with shaping anti-Semitism into a political tool.
Lueger blamed Jews for Vienna's financial problems, once even suggesting that Vienna's Jews should be shipped to sea and sunk.
In continuing to celebrate Lueger, Vienna undermines its status as a classical city of charm and style.
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 Karl Lueger (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
'''Karl Lueger''' (October 24, 1844-March 10, 1910) was an Austrian politician and mayor of Vienna, known for his anti-semitism and racist policies.
He was the mayor of Vienna from 1897 to 1910 Known for his anti-semitism, Lueger was credited by Adolf Hitler as an inspiration for the latter's more virulent form of anti-semitism.
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 Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Seeking Haider
In Vienna, the reactionary movement was led by Dr Karl Lueger, head of the Christian Social party.
Lueger presented himself as the champion of the "little man", the artisan or shopkeeper threatened by big business and big bureaucracy.
Three times Lueger was elected mayor of Vienna, and three times he was vetoed by the Emperor Franz Josef, who disliked his bigotry and demagoguery as much as respectable Austria and Europe now dislike Haider's.
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 AllRefer.com - Karl Lueger (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Lueger appealed to the lower middle classes of Vienna through his anti-Semitism, which was partly religious but mostly opportunist.
He was elected mayor of Vienna in 1897, despite the initial opposition of Emperor Francis Joseph, and he held that post until his death.
Lueger was primarily concerned with increasing the church's influence and getting votes.
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 Karl Lueger - Mayor of Fin de Siecle Vienna - Richard S. Geehr
Karl Lueger, mayor of fin de siècle Vienna, was one of the forerunners to the National Socialists.
In this historical synthesis, Richard Geehr goes beyond a traditional "life and times" biography and places Lueger in the context of Austrian politics and society.
What emerges is a significant political, social, and cultural analysis of the career of Lueger and the development of Austrian society.
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 Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Wien (A)
Archduke Karl (1771–1847) was a younger brother of Emperor Franz II/I. On 21/22 May 1809, Karl defeated Napoleon in the battle of Aspern (today part of Vienna's 22nd district).
Lueger is best known as a charismatic and popular politician, but he also displayed anti-semitic tendencies in conflicts with his political opponents.
They are also an allusion to the Imperial status of Karl VI as they are designed to resemble the column of Emperor Traianus in Rome.
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Lueger, co-founder of the Christian Socialist party, uses economic antisemitism to gain support from the small businessmen and artisans who are suffering after the surge of capitalism during the industrial revolution in Austria.
Adolf Hitler, a resident of Vienna during Lueger's mayoral reign, is greatly influenced both by Lueger's antisemitism and by his ability to rally public support.
Lueger's ideas are reflected in the Nazi party platform in 1920s Germany.
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 Vienna Politics
Karl Lueger was voted mayor for the first time in 1895.
Yet Emperor Franz Joseph rejected Lueger because of his history of rebelling against the government’s authority and speeches made about Hungary.
Because of that, Lueger was only able to become vice mayor of Vienna.
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 Columbia Encyclopedia- Hitler Adolf - AOL Research & Learn
His vicious anti-Semitism (perhaps influenced by that of Karl Lueger) and political harangues drove many acquaintances away.
As the tide of war turned against Hitler, his mass extermination of the Jews, overseen by Adolf Eichmann, was accelerated, and he gave increasing power to Heinrich Himmler and the dread secret police, the Gestapo and SS (Schutzstaffel).
By July, 1944, the German military situation was desperate, and a group of high military and civil officials (including Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and Karl Goerdeler) attempted an assassination.
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 Book Review - The Future of Freedom
But during the 1880s, voting rights were greatly expanded, leading to the election in 1895 of Karl Lueger as mayor.
Lueger was a precursor of Hitler, a nationalist who appealed to the poorly educated (and now enfranchised) masses with anti-Semitism and socialism.
Had it not been for the fact that the Austrian emperor invalidated Lueger’s election, perhaps the Nazi movement would have originated in Austria and spread to Germany, rather than the other way around.
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 6: The Artist
Though controversial, Lueger miraculously remained in the mayor's office for ten years despite the forces and the wealth aligned against him.
He railed against stock companies, large industries, greedy people* and all their "unearned wealth."* The memory of Lueger and his fight against the upper strata was still fresh in Hitler's mind.
He was one of the large group groping for new values and became strongly impressed with the views advocated in many of the Socialists newspapers--the views grounded on the beliefs of Karl Marx, the father of modern communism.
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 H-Net Review: Nancy M. Wingfield on Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna: Christian Socialism in Power, ...
This exhaustive volume begins with the confirmation of Karl Lueger as Vienna's first Christian Social mayor in 1897 and traces the growth of Christian Socialism into the major political party in Parliament by 1907 through its postwar disarray in 1918.
The death of Lueger in early 1910, which Boyer argues marked a turning point in the history of both Christian Socialism and Austrian politics, caused an internal party crisis, deepening fissures that had already been apparent in the party (p.
It is not clear, for example, that the author has adequately addressed the role of anti-Semitism in the politics of Karl Lueger in particular or in Christian Social politics in general, an issue that has particular resonance given recent Austrian history.
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 Christian Socialism in Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Karl Lueger was a leader of the Christian Social Party.
Lueger, Hitler said, became a Christian Social because he view anti-semitism as the way toward the salvation of the state.
Back on New Year’s Day 1889, Lueger had received enthusiastic applause when he exclaimed, one hundred years after the French Revolution: “The year 1889 will be a sort of touchstone for our party....We must not content ourselves with reestablishing the Christian world order....”
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 98.05.06: Learning to Respect Differences Through Cultural Diversity in Literature Teaching Acceptance
In the late 1800's, Karl Lueger (1844-1910) used his belief in racial superiority, namely anti-Semitism, as a means to get votes during the Vienna mayoral elections.
Adolph Hitler was born in 1889 in Austria and it was during Lueger's long rule that Hitler found himself looking to him as a hero.
Karl Lueger saw anti-Semitism as a means to win an election, never realizing that his insidious ideas would be taken to a level beyond the grasp of human understanding.
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 Hitler's propagandist use of Christian Thought and Belief
(Karl Lueger (1844-1910) belonged as a member of the anti-Semitic Christian Social Party, he became mayor of Vienna and kept his post until his death.)
If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.
Only the Christian-Social movement, especially in Lueger's time achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its success.
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 Books Published By The Belfast Educational & Historical Society" (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When Nazi Germany took over Austria, Lueger's successors in the leadership of the Christian Social party, which he founded, were arrested and sent to Concentration Camps along with the leaders of the Social Democracy.
An introduction by Angela Clifford takes up perceptions of Lueger in the context of her own Viennese and Palestinian background, and Councillor Mark Langhammer—who also has links with a lost Middle Europe—supplies a Preface.
Contents: Karl Holzer—a successful Jewish businessman in Vienna—wrote down his Memoirs for his children and grandchildren in the 1920s.
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 Hitler's Viennese Waltz
She shows that, contrary to his own claims, Hitler's encounters with Schönerer's ideas and with the cult of Lueger were not brought about by an ability to hone in on salutary influences in the midst of a large, degenerate city.
For the fin de siècle Vienna that Hamann intricately reconstructs is Lueger's Vienna, a city so saturated with vicious anti-Semitic and antiliberal rhetoric that Hitler could not have avoided, even if he had wanted to, direct contact with the terms that eventually became the core of his political vocabulary.
Hamann's damning main contention is that Hitler's political development has everything to do with where he spent the last years of his youth and the first years of his adulthood.
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 Hitler's Religious Beliefs and Fanaticism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I went ahead and compiled some additional information on Hitler's main influences such as Friedrich Nietzsche (atheist), Karl Lueger and the Christian Social Party (overtly supported the occult Guido-von-List-Society), and superstitious French writer Edouard Drumon.
(Note: Karl Lueger (1844-1910) belonged as a member of the anti-Semitic Christian Social Party, he became mayor of Vienna and kept his post until his death.) The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes.
My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as I had occasion to become acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair judgment turned to unconcealed admiration.
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 Karl Lueger: Mayor of Fin De Siecle Vienna - Price Comparison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Victims of their own success - Haaretz - Israel News (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Not far from here, there is an avenue named after Vienna's anti-Semitic mayor (1897-1910), Karl Lueger.
During a recent visit to Vienna I noticed that everyone, even the announcers on the subway's loud-speaker system, referred to him as "Dr. Karl Lueger," his academic title apparently becoming part of his name.
Wistrich claims that Herzl suffered from "self-hatred" because he loathed the effects of the ghetto; the same is said of the satirist Karl Kraus.
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 TheExperiment | Articles => Uri Avnery on the Holy Alliance, Past and Present
George W. Bush is now the supreme judge who decides who is a terrorist and who is not, as once a mayor of Vienna decided who is a Jew.
(Karl Lueger, who was elected in 1897 on an anti-Semitic platform, once cheered a Viennese team at a football match against Hungarians.
Told that the Viennese team is Jewish, he answered:"What the hell, it's I who decides who is a Jew")
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