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Ernst Kirchweger (born 1897 or 1898; died April 3, 1965 in Vienna) was the first person to die as a result of political conflict in Austria's Second Republic. 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ...
1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...
Vienna (German: Wien [viËn]; Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ...
From 1916 to 1918, Ernst Kirchweger participated in World War I as a sailor in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Afterwards, he fought on the side of the Red Army. Until 1934, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, but then he joined the Communists, which was prohibited at that time. During the reigns of Austrofascism and Nazism, he risked his life as an activist in illegal unions. After Austria's liberation in 1945, having survived concentration camp, he countinued to speak out against fascism. 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ...
1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...
World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...
A sailor is a member of the crew of a ship or boat. ...
The Austro-Hungarian Navy was the naval force of the Austro_Hungarian Empire. ...
This article is about the armed forces of the Soviet Union. ...
1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialdemokratische Partei Ãsterreichs, SPÃ) is a political party in Austria. ...
The Communist Party of Austria (German: Kommunistische Partei Österreichs) is a communist party from Austria. ...
Austrofascism is a term which is frequently used to describe the authoritarian rule installed in Austria between 1934 and 1938. ...
The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ...
Union has several meanings. ...
1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...
Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ...
On March 31, 1965, a demonstration of students, former resistance fighters and unions against Taras Borodajkewycz, a university professor accused of having made anti-semitic statements, took place in Vienna, while the student organisation of the Freedom Party of Austria organized a counterdemonstration. There were skirmishes between the participants of the two demonstrations, during on of which Kichweger was attacked by Günther Kümel and severely hurt. He died three days later as a result of his injuries. Kümel was sentenced to ten months in prison. March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining, as the final day of March. ...
1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...
Taras (von) Borodajkewycz (born October 1, 1902 in what is today Ukraine, died January 3, 1984 in Vienna), was a former member of the NSDAP and after World War II professor of economic history at the College of World Trade in Vienna (today: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration). ...
A professor giving a lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ...
A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ...
The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ...
The Austrian Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Ãsterreichs, abbreviated to FPÃ) is an Austrian political party usually associated with the name of Jörg Haider. ...
25,000 people attended Kirchweger's funeral, which became an anti-fascist manifestation. However, the approach taken by the official Austria towards Nazism did not change for the long time. Only in the early 1990s, Chancellor Franz Vranitzky acknowledged Austria's share in the guilt for the Holocaust. 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Federal Chancellor of Austria (Bundeskanzler) is the head of government in Austria. ...
Franz Vranitzky (born October 4, 1937) is an Austrian politician of the SPÃ party (social democrats). ...
Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ...
In 1990, the Wielandschule in Vienna-Favoriten, a building owned by the Communist Party, was seized by left-wing activist and named Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus. In the mean time, the building has been sold by the Communist Party. 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Amtshaus (Magistratisches Bezirksamt), Favoritens administrative centre, was built in 1881-82 and is one of the few red brick buildings to be found in Vienna today. ...
The Ernst Kirchweger House in September 2005. ...
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