Persecution of Jews in Austria

Roman Empire
Under Christian emperors, Jews were persecuted in the Roman Empire, which included forbidding Jews from marrying Christians, restricting Jews from holding public office, and Jews weren't allowed to own slaves.

Host desecration accusations
Jews were murdered after accusations of host desecration in Laa in 1294, Korneuburg in 1306, Wolfsberg in 1338, Salzburg and Hallein in 1404.

Albert V
In the 15th century, the Vienna Gesera (Viennese Decree) by Duke Albert V imprisoned, burned, and banished Jews from Austria. He ordered the children of the murdered Jews to be forcibly baptized into Christianity. He later bragged: “... I burned my Jews.”

Maximilian I
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (who reigned from the late 15th to early 16th century) decreed the expulsion of Jews from Styria.

Ferdinand II
Jews of Vienna are forced to live in a ghetto in 1625 by the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II.

Karl Lueger
Karl Lueger, the mayor of Vienna (1897-1910), pursued antisemitic practices, mostly by not employing Jews in the city services and limiting them from educational institutions. Lueger supported politicians who actively perpetuated the myth that Jews ritually sacrificed Christian children and supported a bill against Jewish immigration from Russia and Romania. He also founded a Christian antisemitic political party.