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Austrian Uruguayans

Austrian Uruguayans

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Austrian Uruguayans are people born in Austria who live in Uruguay or Uruguayan-born people of Austrian descent.

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Overview

In the times of the Austro-Hungarian Empire diplomatic relations were established with Uruguay, with Baron Anton von Petz celebrating a Treaty of Friendship, Trade and Navigation between both countries, which enabled immigration[1]

During the two World Wars thousands of Austrians escaped Europe, most of them fleeing to South America, including a small but significant Austrian-Jewish community.[2][3] The Central Austrian Committee for Latin America was established in Montevideo in 1943.[4]

The 2011 Uruguayan census revealed 141 people who declared Austria as their country of birth.[5]

There are some members of the Austrian nobility in Uruguay, such as the Habsburgs[6] and the Auerspergs.[7]

There is an institution, the Alpine Club Montevideo (German: Alpenländer Verein Montevideo), which was established in 1934 by Austrians and Germans.[8]

Notable Austrian Uruguayans

  • Nelly Weissel (1920–2010), actress
  • Carlos Kalmar (born 1958), conductor
  • Guntram of Habsburg-Lorraine (born 1967), Prince of Tuscany,[6] son of Princess Laetitia d'Arenberg
  • María Fernanda Auersperg, accountant, National Director for Social Protection[7]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Hungary and Latin America Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
  2. [2]
    Christoph Marx; Christine Hatzky; Waltraud Kokot; Hauke Dorsch (2004). Periplus 2004: Jahrbuch für Aussereuropäische geschichte. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 22. ISBN 978-3-8258-7820-7.
  3. [3]
    "100 years of Jewish institutional presence in Uruguay" (PDF). ORT Uruguay. Retrieved 21 May 2019. (in Spanish)
  4. [4]
    Free Austria Movement (in Spanish)
  5. [5]
    "Immigration to Uruguay" (PDF) (in Spanish). INE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  6. [6]
    de Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. Le Petit Gotha. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery, Paris 2002, p. 702 (French) ISBN 2-9507974-3-1
  7. [7]
    "Bio of María Fernanda Auersperg". MIDES. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  8. [8]
    "ALVM". Archived from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
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