Engelbert Dollfuss

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

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Lived 1892–1934, aged 42Austria

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1892–1934
Aged 42

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Updated 2026-05-29

Ran Austria as dictator for two years in the early 1930s, crushing socialists and banning Nazis before getting assassinated by Nazi agents in 1934. Short tenure, outsized drama.

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Engelbert Dollfuss was an Austrian politician and dictator who served as chancellor of Austria between 1932 and 1934. Having served as Minister for Forests and Agriculture, he ascended to Federal Chancellor in 1932 in the midst of a crisis for the conservative and nationalist government. This crisis culminated in the self-elimination of the Austrian Parliament, a coup sparked by the resignation of the presiding officers of the National Council. Suppressing the Socialist movement in the Austrian Civil War and later banning the Austrian Nazi Party, he cemented his rule through the First of May C…

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