page_title: Ernst Streeruwitz
section_title: Later years
hierarchical_section_title: Ernst Streeruwitz / Later years
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gedenktafel für Ernst von Streeruwitz (1874–1952), Bundeskanzler im Jahr 1929, an seinem ehemaligen Wohnhaus in Wien-Josefstadt, Skodagasse 15 English: Plaque for Ernst von Streeruwitz (1874–1952), Chancellor of Austria for a few months in 1929, at his former home in 8., Skodagasse 15
context_page_description: Ernst Streeruwitz was an Austrian military officer, businessman, political scientist, and politician. A member of the industrialist wing of the Christian Social Party, Streeruwitz served on the National Council from November 1923 to October 1930 and as the country's chancellor and minister of foreign affairs from May to September 1929.
context_section_description: Streeruwitz did not stand for election to the National Council again; his tenure as a legislator thus ended with the 1930 legislative elections.
  Nevertheless, Streeruwitz remained politically active. He traveled, lectured, and campaigned for the integration of Austria into the German Reich.
  He also continued to hold political office. In 1927, Streeruwitz had been elected deputy chairman of the Chamber of Commerce (German: Handelskammer). In 1930, he was elected the chamber's chairman proper.
  Streeruwitz' loyalties remained complicated. Although he still opposed the Christian Social Party's policy of Austrian independence, a fact he was increasingly outspoken about, he regularly sided with the Christian Socials – and against both his fellow pan-Germans and his Chamber of Commerce peers – in matters of economic policy. He supported the Austrofascist corporate state model of governance, but only as long and as far as he did not have to worry about the existence and influence of his chamber. The Christian Social party, and later the Fatherland Front, occasionally hinted that Streeruwitz was being considered for a political comeback but ultimately removed him even from his position as the chairman of the chamber. There was no room for independent professional lobbying groups in the Austrofascist system; in 1935, Streeruwitz was replaced by a government-appointed commissar.
  Consistent in his pan-Germanism, Streeruwitz supported both the 1936 July Accords, an agreement between Austria and the Reich that turned the former into a vassal state of the latter, and the 1938 Anschluss, the military invasion that finally ended Austria's existence as a sovereign state altogether. Streeruwitz approached the Nazi German government and offered his assistance; the Nazis declined.
  Streeruwitz subsequently retired from public life. He resumed his studies at the University of Vienna, graduating with a doctorate in political science in 1939.
  In 1950, Streeruwitz suffered a stroke that left him permanently impaired. He died on October 19, 1952.
caption: Memorial plaque on one of the houses Streeruwitz lived in during his years in Vienna
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