page_title: Second Schober government
section_title: Political climate
hierarchical_section_title: Second Schober government / Background / Political climate
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ignaz Seipel
context_page_description: The second Schober government was a short-lived coalition government, chaired by Johannes Schober, that led the First Austrian Republic from January 27, 1922 to May 31, 1922. The government was supported by the same right-of-center alliance of Christian Social Party and Greater German People's Party that had underpinned the first Schober government. In terms of personalities, it was virtually identical to the Breisky government that had replaced Schober's first cabinet for a single day after the alliance had temporarily broken down, the People's Party having become disaffected with Schober over his foreign policy. Schober never fully regained the People's Party's trust and was unseated for a second time a mere four months later.
context_section_description: The Christian Social Party held the plurality but not the majority of the seats in the National Council.
  A grand coalition of Christian Socials and Social Democrats had already been tried and failed; unable to reconcile their fundamentally different visions for the future of the country, Christian Social and Social Democratic leaders had achieved little but mutual deadlock.
  The failure of the grand coalition left the Greater German People's Party as the only plausible coalition partner.
  The Republic of German-Austria had been proclaimed with the understanding that it would eventually join the German Reich, a vision shared by a clear majority of its population at the time. The treaties of Versailles and Saint-Germain prohibited a union of the two countries, but unification remained popular.
  In particular, the accession of Austria into the Reich was one of the two defining platform planks of the Greater German People's Party.
  In the Treaty of Lana, Austria reconfirmed its commitment to independence. Austria also reconfirmed its renunciation of all its claims to the Sudeten Germans, the German-speaking former Habsburg subjects living in what used to be Bohemia, another offense to the pan-German sensitivities of the People's Party.
  The same treaty that looked like it might turn the Austrian economy around thus also prompted the People's Party to withdraw its support from Schober, the decision that eventually brought down the first Schober government and lead to the installation of the Breisky government on January 26, 1922.
caption: Ignaz Seipel, the Christian Social leader who first installed, then unseated Schober
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