Adolf Schärf
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Adolf Schärf (born 20 April 1890 in Mikulov; died 28 February 1965 in Vienna) was, from 1957 to his death, the president of the Republic of Austria. As an educated lawyer, he had been the secretary of the social democratic president of the Nationalrat during the years of the first republic (1918-1934) and served on the Bundesrat 1933-1934. After the fall of the Republic in 1934 and twice during the Nazi occupation, he served time as a political prisoner. However, in 1938, he aryanized the office of Arnold Eisler, a Jewish lawyer who had to leave Austria. He took over the law firm and it was never restituted. Later on, he also helped in the aryanization process of buildings in Vienna.

After World War II, he became the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria and a member of the new Nationalrat. In 1955, he also took part in the Moscow negotiations for the Austrian Treaty. He became Vice Chancellor in 1956, before being elected president in 1957 and 1963.

Suggestive abuse of biographical similarities

• The neo-Nazi song "Adolf's Ehrentag" by Frank Rennicke attempts to bypass German anti-Nazi glorification laws by pretending to be about Adolf Schärf instead of Adolf Hitler; at the end of the song similarities are listed: both are born on April 20, both have been imprisoned, and both were leaders of Austria.
• The same approach is visible in a poem by Wolf Martin, a columnist from the Kronen Zeitung¹, published in 1994 on the occasion of Adolf "Schärf"'s birthday which caused an uproar at the time.

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