About Wilhelm Miklas
Wilhelm Miklas was an Austrian politician who served as the president of Austria from 1928 until the Anschluss to Nazi Germany in 1938. 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. As President, Miklas was first and foremost a defender of Catholic culture against the anti-clerical Social Democrats. In his private records, Miklas clearly condemned the violation of the constitution by Dollfuss and his successor Kurt Schuschnigg, but he did not openly criticise the government's policies. Miklas became highly unpopular among Austrian Nazis when he refused to commute the death sentences imposed on assassins of Dollfuss after the failed July Putsch in 1934.
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