Georg Ritter von Schönerer
Georg Ritter von Schönerer was an Austrian landowner and politician of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A major exponent of pan-Germanism and German nationalism in Austria as well as a radical opponent of political Catholicism and a fierce antisemite, Schönerer exerted much influence on the young Adolf Hitler. He was known for a generation as the most radical pan-German nationalist in Austria.
Georg Ritter von Schönerer circa 1900
Georg Ritter von Schönerer, ca. 1893
Schönerer was imprisoned for his raid on a newspaper office. While doing so, he allegedly was drunk, hence this caricature
Schönerer's grave in Aumühle, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Austrians are the citizens and nationals of Austria. The English term Austrians was applied to the population of Habsburg Austria from the 17th or 18th century. Subsequently, during the 19th century, it referred to the citizens of the Empire of Austria (1804–1867), and from 1867 until 1918 to the citizens of Cisleithania. In the closest sense, the term Austria originally referred to the historical March of Austria, corresponding roughly to the Vienna Basin in what is today Lower Austria.
The first document containing the word "Ostarrîchi"; the word is marked with a red circle.
Growth of the Habsburg Monarchy
Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg
Sign of the Austrian resistance movement at the Stephansdom in Vienna
