!!!Attentate

Assassinations: August 9, 1832: Captain F. Reindl attempted to 
assassinate Archduke Ferdinand (later Emperor  Ferdinand I); 
February 18, 1853: Johann Libenyis attempted to murder Emperor  Franz 
Joseph I° in Vienna; September 10, 1898: Empress  Elisabeth 
murdered in Geneva by the Italian anarchist Luigi Luccheni; February 
11, 1913: Social Democratic workers' leader F.  Schuhmeier 
assassinated by Paul Kunschak; June 28, 1914: Archduke  Franz 
Ferdinand, heir apparent to the throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess 
of Hohenberg assassinated by the Bosnian student G. Princip in 
Sarajevo (triggered World War I); October 21, 1916: Minister 
President Count K.  Stuergkh shot dead by F.  Adler; February 17, 
1923: Semperit (tyre company) works council member F. Birnecker shot 
dead by Monarchists (first victim to die in a political act of 
violence in the First Republic); June 1, 1924: attempted assassination 
of Federal Chancellor I.  Seipel at Suedbahnhof train station in 
Vienna by Karl Jaworek; on March 10, 1925, the writer H.  Bettauer was 
attacked by the National Socialist O. Rothstock and died on March 26; 
on July 25, 1934: Federal Chancellor E.  Dollfuss assassinated in 
Federal Chancellery by O. Planetta during the attempted National 
Socialist putsch, after the National Socialist R. Drtil had already 
attempted to kill Dollfuss with a revolver on October 3, 1933; June 
22, 1936: Philosophy professor M.  Schlick murdered at the University 
of Vienna; May 1, 1981: Vienna city councillor H.  Nittel murdered; 
November 19, 1984: Turkish diplomat Erner Ergun assassinated in 
Vienna; several series of letter bomb assassinations and attempts by 
perpetrators hostile to aliens since December 1993 on various persons 
who have been active in furthering the cause of integrating and 
accepting non-Austrians and ethnic minorities, including the former 
Mayor of Vienna, H. Zilk. In 1999 F. Fuchs was charged with having 
committed these crimes as well as the most violent assassination in 
the Second Republic involving the death of 4 Roma on February 4, 1995 
in Oberwart.

!Further reading
L. Spira (ed.), Attentate, die Oesterreich 
erschuetterten, 1981; G. Botz, Gewalt in der Politik, 1983.


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