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Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg (December 14, 1897 Riva del Garda - November 18, 1977 Mutters, near Innsbruck) was an Austrian politician who in 1934 succeeded the assassinated Engelbert Dollfuss as chancellor of Austria. In 1938, he was imprisoned by Nazi Germany in the Anschluss.