Seipel, Ignaz

Seipel, Ignaz

▪ chancellor of Austria
born July 19, 1876, Vienna
died Aug. 2, 1932, Pernitz, Austria

      Roman Catholic priest, twice chancellor of Austria (1922–24 and 1926–29), whose use of the Fascist paramilitary Heimwehr in his struggle against Austria's Social Democrats led to a strengthening of fascism in his country.

      Ordained in 1899, Seipel taught moral philosophy at the universities of Salzburg and Vienna before the Austrian revolution of 1918. After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Seipel, by then one of the leaders of the Christian Social Party, prevented a party split into monarchist and republican elements.

      In May 1922 Seipel formed his first government, a coalition with the Greater German Party. From the League of Nations he obtained a loan of $100,000,000 for Austria in return for financial and administrative reforms to be carried out under Allied supervision by the Dutch commissioner of the League of Nations, Alfred Zimmermann. Though Seipel curbed deflation, his efforts met with hostility from provincial governments and his own party, while conservative elements disliked Allied interference in Austria's internal affairs. Wounded in an assassination attempt (June 1, 1924), he resigned the following November.

      During his second term (1926–29) Seipel proved unable to obtain a majority in Parliament. His use of the paramilitary Heimwehr against Austria's Socialists (1927) foreshadowed the events of 1934, when his disciple Engelbert Dollfuss (Dollfuss, Engelbert) destroyed Austrian democracy and established a clerical-Fascist dictatorship. Toward the end of his life Seipel became increasingly authoritarian, advocating a corporate state with strong presidential powers. After serving as foreign minister from September to November 1930, he resigned in ill health and died two years later.

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