Engelbert Dollfuss

Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman (1892-1934)

  • Fame57.4
  • Momentum0.2
  • Austria rank#204
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  • Fame57.4
  • Momentum0.2
  • Austria rank#204
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Lived 1892–1934, aged 42Austria
  • Wikipedia
    59 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in Austria
    #204
    Politicians
  • Era
    1892–1934
    Aged 42
  • Awards
    3
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-06-21

Austria's chancellor from 1932 to 1934, who dissolved parliament, crushed socialists in civil war, banned the Nazis, then died in a Nazi assassination attempt that failed to topple his authoritarian state.

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Engelbert Dollfuss rose from Minister for Forests and Agriculture to Federal Chancellor in 1932 as Austria's conservative government buckled. That crisis peaked when the National Council's presiding officers resigned, triggering what became the self-elimination of parliament itself. Dollfuss suppressed the Socialist movement in the Austrian Civil War, banned the Austrian Nazi Party, and locked his rule into place with the First of May Constitution in 1934. On 25 July that year, Nazi agents assassinated him in a coup attempt that ultimately failed. His successor Kurt Schuschnigg held the regime…

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