Georg Ritter von Schönerer
Georg Ritter von Schönerer | |
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Portrait, c. 1900 | |
| Member of the Imperial Council | |
| Assumed office 1873 | |
| Succeeded by | 17 July 1842 – 14 August 1921 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 July 1842 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 14 August 1921 (aged 79) near Zwettl, Austria |
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| Political party | Deutschliberale Partei |
Georg Ritter von Schönerer (17 July 1842 – 14 August 1921) was an Austrian landowner and politician of Austria-Hungary active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A major exponent of pan-Germanism and German nationalism in Austria who endorsed the annexation of Austrian Germans and Austria to Germany in an Anschluss.
Schönerer was a radical opponent of political Catholicism and a fierce antisemite who exerted much influence on the young Adolf Hitler. He was known for a generation as the most radical pan-German nationalist in Austria.