What is Engelbert Dollfuss?
{{Infobox_Person | name = Engelbert Dollfuss | image = Engelbert Dollfuss.png | caption = Engelbert Dollfuss 1933 | birth_date = October 4 1892 | birth_place = Texing, Austria-Hungary | death_date = July 25 1934 | death_place = [[Vienna]], [[Austria]] }} '''Engelbert Dollfuss''' (''German'': '''Dollfuß''') (October 4, 1892 – July 25, 1934) was the [[Chancellor]] of [[Austria]] from 1932 until 1933.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url= http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/168274/Engelbert-Dollfuss |title=Engelbert Dollfuss (chancellor of Austria) |first= |last= |encyclopedia=britannica.com |year=2011 |accessdate=20 August 2011}}</ref> He led the [[country]] as a [[dictator]] from early 1933 until 1934. He studied [[law]] in [[Vienna]], and [[Economics]] in [[Berlin]]. During [[World War I]], he served in the [[Alps]] and briefly became a [[Prisoner of War]] in 1918. He became Chancellor on May 20, 1932 as head of a [[right-wing]] coalition [[government]]. He wanted to solve the problems caused by the [[Great Depression|Depression]]. He had problems finding majorities in [[parliament]]. The measures he liked to take to deal with [[inflation]] were not well liked. In March 1933, he suspended the Austrian parliament. He then governed by decree. With [[Adolf Hitler]] as [[Chancellor]] in [[Germany]], Dollfuss feared that the influence of the [[Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei|NSDAP]] would grow. This would then lead to a growth in popularity for its Austrian counterpart. Because of this, he banned the NSDAP in June 1933. He also banned the [[Sozialdemokarische Arbeiterpartei Osterreichs|SDAPÖ]] in February 1934. In September 1933, he formed an [[umbrella group]]ing to support the [[regime]], the ''Vaterländische Front'' (Fatherland Front) and merged the [[Christian Social Party]] with the para-[[military]] [[Heimwehr]] (Home Guard), a [[Nationalism|Nationalist]] paramilitary group. The regime which was put into power by him and remained in power until [[1938]] is often called ''[[Austrofascism]]''