The mayor of Vienna at that time, Karl Lueger, frequently spouted an anti-Semitic ideology in his speeches and many of the Viennese newspapers at the time followed suit. Hitler had long been a proponent of German nationalism, and while in Vienna, closely followed the racist nationalism espoused by the Upper Austrian Pan-German politician Georg von Schönerer. Hitler was influenced more by Schönerer’s ideology, but he favored the tactics of Lueger.
