!!!Seipel, Ignaz

b. Vienna, July 19, 1876, 
d. Pernitz (Lower Austria), Aug. 2, 1932, theologian, priest (prelate 
in 1921) and politician (Christian Social Party). Son of a cab driver, 
ordained in 1899, 1909-1917 university professor of moral theology in 
Salzburg, from 1917 in Vienna. Minister of Welfare in the cabinet of 
H.  Lammasch, the last cabinet of the monarchy, from Oct. to Nov. 
1918; 1919-1920 member of the Constituent National Assembly, 1920-1932 
member of the Nationalrat, 1921-1929 party head of the Christian 
Social Party, Chancellor 1922-1924 (severely wounded on June 1, 1924 
in an assassination attempt) and 1926-1929, Foreign Minister in 1930; 
in 1931 he proposed a coalition agreement to the Social Democratic 
Party (SDAP) which was refused. The most important Austrian politician 
of the First Republic, he succeeded in obtaining the  League of 
Nations Loan in Geneva in 1922 and put an end to post-war inflation by 
the measures he took to stabilise the Schilling, known as  Economic 
Reconstruction. He formed an anti-Marxist conservative bloc made up of 
the Christian Social Party, the Landbund and the Pan-Germans, fought 
the Social Democrats and promoted the  Heimwehr (para-military force) 
after 1927. At first in favour of union with Germany, S. supported the 
Austrian republic after 1918 and later an authoritarian corporate 
state.

!Publications
Die wirtschaftsethischen Lehren der Kirchenvaeter, 1907; 
Nationalitaetenprinzip und Staatsgedanke, 1915; Nation und Staat, 
1916; Soz. Frage und soz. Arbeit, 1917; Reden in Oe. und anderswo, ed. 
by J. Gessl, 1926; Der Kampf um die oe. Verfassung, 1930; Der christl. 
Staatsmann, 1931; Gespraeche, ed. by A. M. Knoll, 1932; Tagebuch, 
1933; Der Friede, 1937; Im Dienst des Worts, 1955 (collection of 
sermons).

!Literature
E. K. Winter, I. S. als dialektisches Problem, 1966; V. 
Reimann, Zu gross fuer Oe. S. und Bauer im Kampf um die 1. Republik, 
1968; K. v. Klemperer, I. S., Staatsmann einer Krisenzeit, 1976; F. 
Rennhofer, I. S., Mensch und Staatsmann, 1978; W. Rauscher, I. S., E. 
Benesch und der Mitteleuropagedanke in den oe.-tschech. Beziehungen 
1917-1929, 1993.



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