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2 Schillings Death of Karl Lueger
| Issuer | Austria |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Weight | 12 g |
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| Reverse description | Right-facing bust portrait of Karl Lueger, long-serving Mayor of Vienna, rendered in high sculptural relief with considerable detail in the facial features, beard, and civilian dress. The engraver's signature 'MARSCHALL' appears discreetly below the truncation. A curved legend arcing around the upper and right periphery reads 'BÜRGERMEISTER DR. KARL LUEGER', with the birth and death years '1844-1910' continuing along the lower right rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | BÜRGERMEISTER DR. KARL LUEGER 1844-1910 |
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Karl Lueger died in 1910, so this commemorative came a full quarter-century after the fact — timed instead to coincide with the consolidation of Austro-fascism under Dollfuss and, after his assassination, Schuschnigg. Lueger, the longtime Vienna mayor whose Christian Social populism and virulent antisemitism made him one of Adolf Hitler's acknowledged early influences, was a politically convenient figure for the Fatherland Front regime seeking Catholic-nationalist heroes.
The coin was struck under the authoritarian constitution of 1934, which had abolished parliamentary democracy entirely the previous year.