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Otto Schaedler ( SHED-lər, German: [ˈɔtoː ˈʃɛːdlər]; 9 June 1898 – 25 December 1965) was a physician and political figure from Liechtenstein who served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein and was one of the founders of the Patriotic Union party.
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Otto Schaedler ( SHED-lər, German: [ˈɔtoː ˈʃɛːdlər]; 9 June 1898 – 25 December 1965) was a physician and political figure from Liechtenstein who served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein and was one of the founders of the Patriotic Union party.
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Early life Schaedler was born on 9 June 1898 in Balzers as the son of farmer Emilian Adolf and his mother Emerita Gstöhl as one of 16 children. Between 1910 and 1917 he studied in Mariahilf college. Between 1918 and 1923 he studied medicine in Munich and Innsbruck. He opened a medical practice in Eschen and moved to Vaduz in 1930.
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Career Schaedler was a co-founder of the Liechtenstein Homeland Service in 1933. As the leader of the party, it quickly began to radicalize towards Nazism with a personality cult similar to that of Nazi Germany, with the phrase 'Heil Otto!' being used towards Schaedler within the party. Due to the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Germany Liechtenstein experienced a large rise Jewish emigrants to the country in which Schaedler outspokenly opposed the naturalization of the refugees under a new citizenship law. He was an outspoken anti-Semite and was later accused of having sympathies for National socialism by the Liechtensteiner Volksblatt. This party and the Christian-Social People's Party merged to form the Patriotic Union in 1936 and Schaedler was placed as the party's president, a position in which he held until June 1965. From 1936 to 1945 and again from 1962 to 1965 Schaedler served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein. In January 1937 Liechtensteiner Vaterland editor and founding member of the Liechtenstein Homeland Service Carl Freiherr von Vogelsang publicly denounced Jews living in Liechtenstein and sent numerous letters detailing them to officials in Nazi Germany. As a result, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein, Josef Hoop ordered the offices of the Vaterland to…
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Personal life Schaedler married Maria Rheinberger (10 February 1899 – 21 July 1993) on 27 May 1926 and they had a daughter together. Schaedler died of a heart attack in Vaduz on 25 December 1965, at the age of 67 years old. He is buried at the cemetery of Vaduz, along with his family.
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Honours Liechtenstein: Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Principality of Liechtenstein (1939)
