Austrian government of Engelbert Dollfuss

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The Austrian government of Engelbert Dollfuss was the authoritarian interwar regime that dismantled parliamentary democracy and established an Austrofascist one-party state in Austria in the early 1930s.

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instanceOf Austrofascist regime
authoritarian government
one-party state
abolished parliamentary democracy in Austria
alignedWith Roman Catholic Church NERFINISHED
bannedPoliticalParty Austrian Nazi Party NERFINISHED
Communist Party of Austria NERFINISHED
Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria NERFINISHED
basedOn May Constitution of 1934 NERFINISHED
capital Vienna NERFINISHED
civilWarDate February 1934
conflict Austrian Civil War NERFINISHED
constitutionalChange introduction of authoritarian May Constitution 1934
suspension of 1920 Austrian Constitution
country Austria
dissolvedParliament Nationalrat of Austria NERFINISHED
endTime 1934
established one-party state in Austria
followedBy Austrian government of Kurt Schuschnigg NERFINISHED
foreignPolicyGoal maintain Austrian independence from Nazi Germany
governmentType corporatist state
dictatorship
headOfGovernment Engelbert Dollfuss NERFINISHED
introduced political censorship
press censorship
leaderAssassinated Engelbert Dollfuss NERFINISHED
leaderAssassinatedBy Austrian Nazis
leaderAssassinationDate 25 July 1934
opposedBy Austrian Social Democrats NERFINISHED
Austrian communists
Nazi Germany
politicalIdeology Austrofascism
authoritarian conservatism
clerical fascism
precededBy First Austrian Republic NERFINISHED
promoted corporatist economic system
replacedWith state-controlled labor organizations
repressed February Uprising of 1934 NERFINISHED
restricted freedom of assembly
freedom of association
freedom of the press
rulingParty Fatherland Front NERFINISHED
startTime 1932
supportedBy Kingdom of Italy under Benito Mussolini NERFINISHED
suppressed Austrian labor movement
trade unions
timePeriod interwar period
usedParamilitaryOrganization Heimwehr NERFINISHED

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Fatherland Front foundedBy Austrian government of Engelbert Dollfuss