Karl Lueger

Karl Lueger
Photograph of Karl Lueger, c. 1897
Mayor of Vienna
In office
8 April 1897 (1897-04-08) – 10 March 1910 (1910-03-10)
Preceded byJosef Strobach
Succeeded byJosef Neumayer
Personal details
Born(1844-10-24)24 October 1844
Wieden, Austrian Empire (current-day Austria)
Died10 March 1910(1910-03-10) (aged 65)
Vienna, Austria-Hungary (current-day Austria)
Political partyChristian Social Party
ProfessionLawyer

Karl Lueger (German: [ˈlu̯eːɡɐ]; 24 October 1844 – 10 March 1910) was an Austrian lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of Vienna from 1897 until his death in 1910. He is credited with the transformation of Vienna into a modern city at the turn of the 20th century, although the populist and antisemitic politics of the Austrian Christian Social Party (CS), which he founded and led until his death, remain controversial, as they are sometimes viewed as a model for Adolf Hitler's Nazism.[1]

  1. ^ Fareed Zacharia, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, Norton, 2003, 2007, p. 60