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| - Otto I of Austria (Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius; 20 November 1912 – 4 July 2011) was, among other titles, the last ruler of the United States of Greater Austria, a realm which comprised modern-day Hungary, Czechoslovakia and parts of Germany, Yugoslavia, Italy, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine. In the beginning of the Anschluss, fearing he would be arrested by the Germans, fled Austria to neighboring Switzerland but did not abdicate. After World War II he emigrated to the United States, with a visa issued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
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| - Otto I of Austria (Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius; 20 November 1912 – 4 July 2011) was, among other titles, the last ruler of the United States of Greater Austria, a realm which comprised modern-day Hungary, Czechoslovakia and parts of Germany, Yugoslavia, Italy, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine. In the beginning of the Anschluss, fearing he would be arrested by the Germans, fled Austria to neighboring Switzerland but did not abdicate. After World War II he emigrated to the United States, with a visa issued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Otto I was Vice President (1957–1973) and President (1973–2004) of the International Paneuropean Union, and served as a Member of the European Parliament 1979–1999. As a newly elected Member of the European Parliament in 1979, Otto had an empty chair set up for the countries on the other side of the Iron Curtain in the European Parliament, and took a strong interest in the countries behind the Iron Curtain during his tenure. Emperor Otto played a central role in the revolutions of 1989, as a co-initiator of the Pan-European Picnic. Later he would be a strong supporter of the EU membership of central and eastern European countries. A noted intellectual, he published several books on historical and political affairs. Otto has been described as one of the "architects of the European idea and of European integration" together with Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer, and Alcide De Gasperi. During his life in exile, he lived in Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, France, the United States, and from 1994 until his death, finally in Bavaria, in the residence Villa Austria. At the time of his death, he was a citizen of Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia, having earlier been stateless de jure and de facto and possessed passports of Monaco, the Order of Malta, and Spain His funeral took place at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna on July 16, 2011; he was subsequently entombed in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna and his heart buried in Pannonhalma Archabbey in Hungary.
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