!!!Lueger, Karl

b. Vienna, Oct. 24, 1844, 
d. Vienna, March 10, 1910, law graduate and politician 
(Christian-Socialist). Son of a servant at the Vienna Polytechnical 
School, from 1874 to 1896 lawyer in Vienna. from 1875/76 and 1878 to 
1910 member of the Vienna Municipal Council, from 1885 member of the 
Reichsrat, from 1890 member of the Lower Austrian Landtag, 1895 and 
1896/97 Vice Mayor, 1897 to 1910 Mayor of Vienna. He was a liberal, 
joined the Democrats in the Municipal Council until he took up the 
ideas of K. von  Vogelsang  and became founder of the  Christian 
Social Party. Supported by a party with broad popular appeal, he 
fought liberalism, whose advocates in the press treated him with great 
hostility. He was a fascinating speaker and charismatic 
"populist". Displayed anti-Semite tendencies in conflicts 
with his political opponents as a means to a political end ( 
Anti-Semitism). He strongly supported the trading sector of the middle 
class. After he was elected Mayor he fought both the Social Democrats 
and radical German-National tendencies. Responsible for considerable 
communal achievements during his term (gas and electricity supply, the 
"Green belt" forest and meadow reserve around large parts of Vienna, 
2nd water supply pipeline, social welfare and public transport). He 
was highly popular and respected.

!Literature
F. Czeike, Liberale, christl.-soz. und soz.-dem. 
Kommunalpolitik (1861-1934), 1962; W. Boyer, Political Radicalism in 
the Late Imperial Vienna, 1981; H. Andics, Luegerzeit, 1984; OeBL; 
NOeB; NDB.



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