Schuschnigg biography

After the war Schuschnigg became a lawyer in Innsbruck.

Blumenkrieg

He joined the Christian Social Party and was elected to the Nationairat in In Engelbert Dollfuss, the Austrian chancellor, appointed Schuschnigg as his minister of justice. The following year he became minister of education. When Dollfuss was assassinated in , Schuschnigg became the Austria's new chancellor. He attempted to eliminate the threat to his government by Heimwehr, a national paramilitary defence force, by disbanding it on October, Schuschnigg capitulated to Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden in February, He attempted to gain control of the situation by arranging for a plebiscite to be held on 13th March, However, this move was undermined when the German Army invaded two days before the plebiscite was due to take place.

Schuschnigg was imprisoned by the Nazi Government until he was liberated by American troops in Kurt von Schuschnigg died in Innsbruck, Austria on 18th November, This day has placed us in a tragic and decisive situation.

Czechoslovakia

I have to give my Austrian fellow countrymen the details of the events of today. The German Government today handed to President Miklas an ultimatum, with a time limit, ordering him to nominate as chancellor a person designated by the German Government and to appoint members of a cabinet on the orders of the German Government; otherwise German troops would invade Austria.

I declare before the world that the reports launched in Germany concerning disorders by the workers, the shedding of streams of blood, and the creation of a situation beyond the control of the Austrian Government are lies from A to Z.