caa a22 4500 388056622 CHVBK 20180307125108.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0067237800014843 doi S0067237800014843 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0067237800014843 John Rath R. The Dollfuß Ministry: The Democratic Prelude [Elektronische Daten] [R. John Rath] The typical dictator of the interwar period was, like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, already a convinced fascist or authoritarian when he first came to power. This was not the case in Austria, where Engelbert Dollfuß, the semifascist dictator of 1934, was seemingly a genuine democrat when he was appointed chancellor in May 1932. Even his appointment was accidental. Had the Social Democrats accepted Ignaz Seipel's and Karl Buresch's overtures in 1931 to join the Christian Socials in a coalition government, Dollfuß might never have become chancellor. And had they not rejected a second effort by Buresch in April 1932 and demanded new elections, democratic government in Austria would have been strengthened rather than weakened. Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 1998 Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press 29/1(1998-01), 161-194 0067-2378 29:1<161 1998 29 AHY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0067237800014843 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0067237800014843 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- John Rath R. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press 29/1(1998-01), 161-194 0067-2378 29:1<161 1998 29 AHY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge