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marry her. However, a significant political strategy of Lueger's was to appeal to women; his female followers were known as his "Amazon corps", "the Lueger Garde" or "Lueger Gretls". He calculated that even though women did not have the right to vote, they had considerable influence on their husbands. To sustain his appeal to them, he maintained the fiction that he was too busy for a private life since he belonged so totally to the people of Vienna. According to
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