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Dollfuss

American  
[dawl-foos] / ˈdɔl fus /

noun

  1. Engelbert 1892–1934, Austrian statesman: premier 1932–34.


Dollfuss British  
/ ˈdɔlfuːs /

noun

  1. Engelbert (ˈɛŋəlbɛrt). 1892–1934, Austrian statesman, chancellor (1932–34), who was assassinated by Austrian Nazis

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Mises, an economist who in the early 1930s had advised the Austrofascist chancellor of Austria, Engelbert Dollfuss, settled in the U.S. in 1940.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2024

Vienna-born Historian Walter Maass is especially intriguing on the Dollfuss assassination, partly because he lived through it all as a young adult.

From Time Magazine Archive

So far so good, but the next step brought the Dollfuss government smack up against a great and solid mass, the Socialists of Vienna.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Chancellor Dollfuss to have waited abjectly on the beach would have been too undignified.

From Time Magazine Archive

Less than two years later Hitler was Chancellor of Germany, and in 1934 came the murder of Dollfuss.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie

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