resigned, effective 26 September. Later years Streeruwitz did not stand for election to the National Council again; his tenure as a legislator thus ended with the 1930 legislative elections. Nevertheless, Streeruwitz remained politically active. He traveled, lectured, and campaigned for the integration of Austria into the German Reich. He also continued to hold political office. In 1927, Streeruwitz had been elected deputy chairman of the Chamber of Commerce (). In 1930, he was elected the chamber's chairman proper. Streeruwitz's loyalties remained complicated. Although he still opposed the Christian Social Party's policy of Austrian independence, a fact about which he was increasingly outspoken, he regularly sided with the Christian Socials and against both his fellow pan-Germans and his Chamber of Commerce peers in matters of economic policy. He supported the Austrofascist corporate state model of governance but only if he did not have to worry about the existence and influence of his chamber. The Christian Social party and later the Fatherland Front occasionally hinted that Streeruwitz was being considered for a political comeback but ultimately removed him even from his position as the chairman of the chamber. There was no room for independent professional lobbying groups in the Austrofascist system; in 1935, Streeruwitz was replaced by a government-appointed commissar. Consistent in his pan-Germanism, Streeruwitz supported both the 1936 July Accords, an agreement between Austria and the Reich that turned the former into a vassal state of the latter, and the 1938 Anschluss, the military invasion that finally ended Austria's existence as a sovereign state altogether. Streeruwitz approached the Nazi German government and offered his assistance, but the Nazis declined. Streeruwitz subsequently retired from public life. He resumed his studies at the University of Vienna, graduating with a doctorate in political science in 1939. In 1950, Streeruwitz suffered a stroke that left him permanently impaired. He died on 19 October 1952. Legacy Streeruwitz has largely faded from public consciousness. When he is mentioned at all, he served mainly to illustrate how weak and short-lived thar the governments of the Austrian First Republic tended to be. The struggling democracy, shaken by crisis after crisis and in a permanent unofficial state of emergency, went through no fewer than 15 chancellors in twenty years. Even Ignaz Seipel, the dominant political figure of the era, was unseated after only two years in office. Streeruwitz was just one of several heads of government who fell short of