!!!Innitzer, Theodor

b. Vejprty, Czech Republic (then Weipert), Dec. 25, 1875, 
d. Vienna, Oct. 9, 1955, theologian and clerical dignitary. 1911 
appointed university professor of New Testament exegesis, (1928/1929 
rector of the University of Vienna), 1929-1930 Federal Minister of 
Social Administration (improved the situation of people with very low 
pensions), 1932-1955 archbishop of Vienna, 1933 cardinal. Founded the 
Museum of the Cathedral and Diocese of Vienna in 1933, known as a 
supporter of the authoritarian government of E.  Dollfuss and K.  
Schuschnigg. Under pressure from Gauleiter J.  Buerckel, I. and the 
Austrian bishops issued a declaration of loyalty on March 18, 1938, 
which was abused by the national socialist propaganda machinery. His 
efforts to protect the Church by making agreements with the national 
socialist rulers found an immediate end on October 8, 1938, when the 
Hitler Youth and the Storm Troopers stormed the archbishop's palace. 
During the national socialist regime I. organised a campaign to help 
non-Arian Catholics, renewed the Catholic Academy  Katholische 
Akademie, Wiener  in 1945; emphasised the participation of lay 
Catholics in church activities in the post-war period. Since 1962 the 
"Cardinal Innitzer Study Fund" grants a variety of prizes for the 
promotion of research.

!Works
Johannes 
d. T., 1908; Die Parabeln der Evangelien, 1909; Fortsetzer des 
Kommentars zu den Evangelien, 1916-1948 (ed. by F. X. Poelzl); Das 
Heilige Jahr und der Friede, 1933; Die soziale Aufgaben der Schule, 
1935.

!Literature
M. Liebmann, Kardinal I. und der Anschluss, 1982; V. 
Reimann, I., 1988; NOeB; NDB.



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