1. Alexander Tschugguel was a founding member of The Reform Conservatives, a defunct Austrian conservative political party that set out to abolish the European Parliament.
14 Facts About Alexander Tschugguel
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Alexander Tschugguel left the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria and converted to Roman Catholicism at fifteen.
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Alexander Tschugguel is a member of the Traditionalist Catholic movement.
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Alexander Tschugguel was married in 2019 in a wedding officiated by Bishop Athanasius Schneider.
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Alexander Tschugguel joined the anti-Communist Traditionalist Catholic network Tradition, Family and Property in 2009.
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Alexander Tschugguel is an anti-immigration activist who declares particular concern with the influx of Muslim refugees into Austria and Germany.
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Alexander Tschugguel describes his political stance as patriotic and monarchist.
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In 2014 Alexander Tschugguel co-organized a bus tour in Germany with von Beverfoerde to campaign against same-sex marriage.
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Alexander Tschugguel came forward on 4 November 2019 in a YouTube video.
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Alexander Tschugguel, who had removed the statues believing them to be a violation of the First Commandment, received support from various high ranking Church officials after the incident, including Bishop Anthanasius Schneider, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, and Cardinal Walter Brandmuller.
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Alexander Tschugguel praised Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and attacked Pope Francis over his concern with the Amazon.
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In December 2019 Alexander Tschugguel organized a prayer protest outside of St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna against the hosting of the Life Ball, an LGBTQ-friendly annual charity event to raise money for HIV and AIDS awareness, by the cathedral.
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Alexander Tschugguel received support from the retired Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.
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On 18 January 2020 Alexander Tschugguel protested alongside von Beverfoerde, Vigano, Roberto de Mattei, and Gabriele Kuby in Munich, demanding "clarity and coherence" and an end to "dissimulation and deception" in the Catholic Church in Germany from Pope Francis and the German Bishops' Conference.