Vienna mayor and demagogue
Karl Lueger
Life
1844–1910
He made antisemitism a successful formula for municipal mass politics.
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Karl Lueger won Vienna's mayoralty in 1897 through antisemitic mass politics. Lueger's demagoguery demonstrated the electoral power of brutal emotional rhetoric.