Wilhelm Miklas
| Wilhelm Miklas | |
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| 3rd President of Austria | |
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In office 10 December 1928 – 13 March 1938 |
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| Chancellor |
Ignaz Seipel Ernst Streeruwitz Johann Schober Karl Vaugoin Otto Ender Karl Buresch Engelbert Dollfuß Kurt Schuschnigg Arthur Seyss-Inquart |
| Preceded by | Michael Hainisch |
| Succeeded by | vacant Austria annexed by the Third Reich. next title holder: Karl Renner (1945) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 October 1872 Krems, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 20 March 1956 (aged 83) Vienna, Austria |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Political party | Christian Social Party |
| Spouse(s) | Leopoldine Miklas (1880-1960) |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Wilhelm Miklas (15 October 1872 – 20 March 1956) was an Austrian politician who served as the third President of Austria from 1928 until the Anschluss to Nazi Germany in 1938.
Born as the son of a post official in Krems, in the Cisleithanian crown land of Lower Austria, Wilhelm Miklas graduated from high school at and went on to study history and geography at the University of Vienna. From 1905 to 1922 Miklas was headmaster of the in Horn, a small town in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel region.
While serving in his role for the Christian Social Party, in 1907 he was elected to the Imperial Council (Reichsrat) parliament. Re-elected in 1911, Miklas held a parliamentary seat in the provisional assembly of German-Austria and in the Constitutional Assembly of the First Austrian Republic. An opponent of German nationalist policies, he declared himself against a closer connection with the Weimar Republic and played a pivotal role in adopting the red-white-red Austrian flag.
In 1919 Miklas was appointed state secretary in the Austrian government of Chancellor Karl Renner and from 1923 to 1928 was speaker of the National Council (Nationalrat) parliament. On 10 December 1928 the representatives of the Federal Assembly elected him President of Austria, a role he served in until the position ceased to exist ten years later when Austria was annexed by Germany in the Anschluss.
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