Editing Engelbert Dollfuss (section)

== Chancellor of Austria ==
{{see also|First Dollfuss government|<!--Second Dollfuss government-->}}

[[File:Engelbert Dollfuss 1-E-652.jpg|thumb|Dollfuss in 1932]]

On 10 May 1932, Dollfuss, aged 39 and with only one year's experience in the [[Government of Austria|Federal Government]], was offered the office of [[Chancellor of Austria|Chancellor]] by President [[Wilhelm Miklas]], also a member of the Christian-Social Party. Dollfuss refused to reply, instead spending the night in his favourite church praying, returning in the morning for a bath and a spartan meal before replying to the President that he would accept the offer.<ref name="Eve">{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882197-3,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702172629/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882197-3,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 2, 2011 | magazine=Time | title=Austria : Eve of Renewal | date=September 25, 1933}}</ref> Dollfuss was sworn in on 20 May 1932 as head of a [[coalition government]] between the Christian-Social Party, the [[Landbund]] – a [[right-wing]] [[agrarianism|agrarian]] party – and [[Heimwehr|Heimatblock]], the parliamentary wing of the ''[[Heimwehr]]'', a [[paramilitary]] [[ultra-nationalist]] group. The coalition assumed the pressing task of tackling the problems of the [[Great Depression]]. Much of the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]]'s industry had been situated in the areas that became part of [[Czechoslovakia]] and [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] after [[World War I]] as a result of the [[Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)|Treaty of Saint-Germain]]. Postwar Austria was therefore economically disadvantaged.

Dollfuss's support in [[Federal Assembly of Austria|Parliament]] was marginal; his coalition had only a one-vote majority.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Österreich I (Die unterschätzte Republik) |last=Portisch |first=Hugo| author2=Sepp Riff |year=1989 |publisher=Verlag Kremayr und Scheriau |location=Vienna |isbn=3-218-00485-3 |page=415}}</ref>

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