Austrian Uruguayans are people born in Austria who live in Uruguay or Uruguayan-born people of Austrian descent.[citation needed]

Overview

In the times of the Austro-Hungarian Empire diplomatic relations were established with Uruguay, with Baron Anton von Petz celebrating a Treaty of Friendship, Trade and Navigation between both countries, which enabled immigration[3]

During the two World Wars thousands of Austrians escaped Europe, most of them fleeing to South America, including a small but significant Austrian-Jewish community.[4][5] The Central Austrian Committee for Latin America was established in Montevideo in 1943.[6]

The 2011 Uruguayan census revealed 141 people who declared Austria as their country of birth.[7]

There are some members of the Austrian nobility in Uruguay, such as the Habsburgs[8] and the Auerspergs.[9][10]

There is an institution, the Alpine Club Montevideo (German: Alpenländer Verein Montevideo), which was established in 1934 by Austrians and Germans.[11]

Notable Austrian Uruguayans

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Uruguay".
  2. ↑ "Uruguay: A New Home in South America?".
  3. ↑ Hungary and Latin America Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ Christoph Marx; Christine Hatzky; Waltraud Kokot; Hauke Dorsch (2004). Periplus 2004: Jahrbuch für Aussereuropäische geschichte. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 22. ISBN 978-3-8258-7820-7.
  5. ↑ "100 years of Jewish institutional presence in Uruguay" (PDF). ORT Uruguay. Retrieved 21 May 2019. (in Spanish)
  6. ↑ Free Austria Movement (in Spanish)
  7. ↑ "Immigration to Uruguay" (PDF) (in Spanish). INE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  8. 1 2 de Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. Le Petit Gotha. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery, Paris 2002, p. 702 (French) ISBN 2-9507974-3-1
  9. 1 2 "Bio of María Fernanda Auersperg". MIDES. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  10. ↑ "Descendants of Prince Karl of Auersperg". Hein's Royal Genealogy Page. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  11. ↑ "ALVM". Archived from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Uruguayans