Karl Lueger

Karl Lueger (1844-1910) was a politician, mayor of Vienna, and leader of the Austrian Christian Social Party, which he founded in the 1890s. Lueger's administration pursued antisemitic practices, mostly by not employing Jews in the city services and limiting their access to educational institutions. He supported politicians who actively perpetuated the myth that Jews ritually sacrificed Christian children and supported a bill against Jewish immigration from Russia and Romania.

Quotes

 * “Here in our Austrian fatherland the situation is such that the Jews have seized a degree of influence which exceeds their number and importance. ... In Vienna the poor craftsman has to go begging on Saturday afternoon, to turn the labor of his hands to account, he has to beg at the Jewish furniture dealer’s. ... The influence on the masses, in our country, is in the hands of the Jews, the greater part of the press is in their hands, by far the largest part of all capital and, in particular, high finance, is in Jewish hands, and in this respect the Jews operate a terrorism of a kind that could hardly be worse. For us, in Austria, it is a matter of liberating Christian people from the hegemony of Jewry.”, an extract from a speech given by Mayor Karl Lueger at a meeting of the Christian Socialist Workers’ Association held on July 20, 1899, in Vienna.


 * “Yes, we want to annihilate the Jews!”, Karl Lueger in a 1902 interview.

References by Adolf Hitler

 * “... the marvelous progress of the Christian-Socialist Party ... became a classic object of study for me, and ... played an important part in the development of my own views. ...”, Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume 1, Chapter 3.


 * “If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people...”, Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume 1, Chapter 3.