- Adolf Schärf
Infobox President
name = Adolf Schärf
nationality = Austrian
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order = 6thPresident of Austria
term_start =22 May 1957
term_end =28 February 1965
vicepresident =
predecessor = Theodor Körner
successor =Franz Jonas
birth_date = birth date|1890|4|20|df=y
birth_place =Mikulov
death_date = death date and age|1965|2|28|1890|4|20|df=y
death_place =Vienna
party =Social Democratic Party of Austria
spouse =Hilda Schärf
religion =Adolf Schärf (born
20 April 1890 inMikulov ; died28 February 1965 inVienna ) was, from 1957 to his death, the president of the Republic of Austria. As an educated lawyer, he had been the secretary of the social democratic president of the Nationalrat during the years of the first republic (1918-1934) and served on the Bundesrat 1933-1934. After the fall of the Republic in 1934 and twice during the Nazi occupation, he served time as apolitical prisoner . However, in 1938, he aryanized the office of Arnold Eisler, a Jewish lawyer who had to leave Austria. He took over the law firm and it was never restituted. Later on, he also helped in the aryanization process of buildings in Vienna.After
World War II , he became the chairman of theSocial Democratic Party of Austria and a member of the new Nationalrat. In 1955, he also took part in theMoscow negotiations for theAustrian Treaty . He became Vice Chancellor in 1956, before being elected president in 1957 and 1963.Suggestive abuse of biographical similarities
* The neo-Nazi song "Adolf's Ehrentag" by
Frank Rennicke attempts to bypass German anti-Nazi glorification laws by pretending to be about Adolf Schärf instead ofAdolf Hitler ; at the end of the song similarities are listed: both are born on April 20, both have been imprisoned, and both were leaders of Austria.
* The same approach is visible in a [http://pontisblog.eu/2008/04/kronenzeitung/ poem by Wolf Martin] , a columnist from theKronen Zeitung ["Kronen Zeitung - Tag für Tag ein Boulevardstück" by Nathalie Borgers, ARTE, 2005] , published in 1994 on the occasion of Adolf "Schärf"'s birthday which caused an uproar at the time.Sources
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