Lex Anteinternet: Friedrich Alder shot and killed Austrian Minister President Count Karl von Stürgkh

Friday, October 21, 2016

Friedrich Alder shot and killed Austrian Minister President Count Karl von Stürgkh

Socialist revolutionary Friedrich Alder shot and killed Austrian Minister President Count Karl von Stürgkh on this day in 1916.

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Alder was a Socialist radical who took his extreme beliefs to the extreme of killing the Austrian Minister President, an act disavowed by other Austrian Socialist. His death sentence was commuted and he lived until 1960. He lived in the United States during World War Two, having left Austria after its incorporation into Nazi Germany but returned to Europe to live in Switzerland after the war, having retired from politics.

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