Georg Ritter von Schönerer: Difference between revisions

===End of career in politics===

In 1897, Schönerer helped orchestrate the expulsion of [[Minister-President of Austria|Minister-President]] of [[Cisleithania]] [[Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni]] from office. Badeni had proclaimed that civil servants in Austrian-controlled [[Bohemia]] must know the [[Czech language]], an ordinance that prevented many Bohemian ethnic German speakers, most of whom did not speak Czech, from applying for government jobs. Schönerer staged mass protests against the ordinance and disrupted parliamentary proceedings, actions that eventually led Emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Joseph]] to dismiss Badeni.

During these years, while the ''[[Kulturkampf]]'' divided [[Imperial Germany]], Schönerer founded the ''[[Away from Rome!|''Los von Rom!'']]'' ("Away from Rome!") movement, which advocated the conversion of all Roman Catholic German-speaking people of Austria to Lutheran [[Protestantism]], or, in some cases, to the [[Old Catholic Church]]es. Schönerer became even more powerful in 1901, when 21 members of his party gained seats in the Parliament. But his influence and career rapidly declined thereafter due to his forceful views and personality. His party also suffered, and had virtually disintegrated by 1907. But his views and philosophy, not to mention his great skill as an agitator, influenced and inspired [[Hitler]] and the [[Nazi Party]].{{sfn|Childers|2017|pp=9–11}}

 

===Death===

Schönerer died at his Rosenau manor near Zwettl, Lower Austria on 14 August 1921. He had arranged to be buried near Bismarck's mausoleum on his estate at [[Friedrichsruh]], [[Saxe-Lauenburg|Lauenburg]], in present-day [[Schleswig-Holstein]], northern Germany.

 

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