Republic of Austria

State · 1919–1937 CE · at its largest around 1919 CE

The First Austrian Republic, the German-speaking rump of the Habsburg monarchy after 1918. Weakened by political conflict, it became an authoritarian state in the 1930s and was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.

On its lands while it lasted

• Sigmund Freud (1856 CE – 1939 CE): Austrian neurologist in Vienna who founded psychoanalysis. His The Interpretation of Dreams appeared in 1899. He fled the Nazis to London in 1938.
• Interpol (1923 CE): Founded in Vienna in 1923 as the International Criminal Police Commission, the organisation helps police forces of its member countries cooperate across borders. Its headquarters has been in Lyon since 1989.

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