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Emilie Tolnay
Emilie Tolnay (born Emilie Müller; 6 October 1901 – 5 July 1944) was an Austrian hairdresser who by the time of the German annexation in 1938 had become a resistance activist. She died on the guillotine in the Vienna district court complex. Biography Emilie Müller was born at Jihlava (). She completed her compulsory schooling and, in 1916, embarked on the first of a succession of unskilled jobs in industry. In 1922 she trained and qualified as a hairdresser, working in the profession till 1926. That was the year in which she married the bakery assistant Anton Tolnay (1893–?). Parliamentary democracy in the recently much diminished state of Austria was widely associated with military defeat and acute economic austerity. It was not universally popular. In March 1933 the so-called Self-elimination of the Austrian Parliament effectively marked a major step towards an Austrian adaptation of Italian Fascism. Among the politically engaged it was the socialists and communists who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrians
Austrians (, ) are the citizens and Nationality, nationals of Austria. The English term ''Austrians'' was applied to the population of Archduchy of Austria, Habsburg Austria from the 17th or 18th century. Subsequently, during the 19th century, it referred to the citizens of the Empire of Austria (1804–1867), and from 1867 until 1918 to the citizens of Cisleithania. In the closest sense, the name of Austria, term ''Austria'' originally referred to the historical March of Austria, corresponding roughly to the Vienna Basin in what is today Lower Austria. Historically, Austrians were regarded as Germans and viewed themselves as such. The Austrian lands (including Bohemia) were part of the Holy Roman Empire and the German Confederation until the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 which resulted in Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia expelling the Austrian Empire from the Confederation. Thus, when German Empire, Germany was Unification of Germany, founded as a nation-state in 1871, Austria Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
