Marianne Hainisch, mother of Michael Hainisch, who was president of Austria from 1920 to 1928, died today at the age of ninety-seven. She was a pioneer in the movement for women’s rights.
Mrs. Hainisch was the descendant of an aristocratic Jewish family named Figdor. President Hainisch was quoted as having said jocularly, “The anti-Semites have enlisted me into the Jewish family” because Mrs. Hainisch was of Jewish descent. “I am a liberty-loving democrat,” he added.
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