Georg Ritter von Schönerer (1842-1921) was an Austrian politician active in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The leader of the Pan-German movement in Austria, von Schönerer  advocated close ties between Austria and Germany and was fiercely opposed to  Austrian patriotism, the Catholic Church and liberalism. His ideas, especially his rabid anti-Semitism, later strongly influenced the young Adolf Hitler. His political organs were the magazine Unverfälschte deutsche Worte (1890-1912) and the papers Alldeutsches Tagblatt and Grazer Wochenblatt.