Richard Schmitz was the last Social-Christian

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 mayor of Vienna

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, Austria

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Richard Schmitz served as Vice Chancellor of Austria

Vice Chancellor of Austria

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, as well as its Minister of Social Welfare and of Education, and as Commissioner of Vienna. He was a member of the pro-Habsburg

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 Christian Social Party.

After an active role in the Heimwehr

Heimwehr

The Heimwehr or sometimes Heimatschutz were a Nationalist, initially paramilitary group operating within Austria during the 1920s and 1930s; they were similar in methods, organisation, and ideology to Germany's Freikorps...

-Fascist clash with the Clericals, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss

Engelbert Dollfuss

Engelbert Dollfuss was an Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman. Serving previously as Minister for Forest and Agriculture, he ascended to Federal Chancellor in 1932 in the midst of a crisis for the conservative government...

 appointed him Mayor of Vienna in 1934. He succeeded elected Mayor Karl Seitz

Karl Seitz

Karl Seitz was an Austrian politician and the first President of Austria.Karl Seitz was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire, as the son of a struggling small-time coal trader. Following the premature death of his father in 1875, the family was thrown into abject poverty,...

. Ardently anti-Nazi

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, Schmitz was Mayor four years later when Austria was absorbed into the Third Reich in the Anschluss

Anschluss

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. Up until that point, Schmitz spoke out publicly against Nazism and its tactics.

Along with thousands of other prominent Austrians, Richard Schmitz was arrested and taken to Dachau concentration camp in Bavaria

Bavaria

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 where he remained for the length of the war. In late April 1945 Schmitz was, together with other prominent concentration camp inmates, transferred to Tyrol

Transport of concentration camp inmates to Tyrol

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 where the SS left the prisoners behind. He was liberated by American

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 troops on May 5, 1945.
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Karl Seitz

Karl Seitz

Karl Seitz was an Austrian politician and the first President of Austria.Karl Seitz was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire, as the son of a struggling small-time coal trader. Following the premature death of his father in 1875, the family was thrown into abject poverty,...

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1934 1938
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Hermann Neubacher

Hermann Neubacher

Hermann Neubacher was an Austrian Nazi politician who held a number of diplomatic posts in the Third Reich. During the Second World War, he was appointed as the leading German official for the Balkans.-Austrian activism:...

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