His successor Kurt Schuschnigg maintained the regime until Adolf Hitler's Anschluss in 1938.

Early life

Dollfuss was born to a poor, lower middle-class peasant family in the hamlet of Great Maierhof in the commune of St. Gotthard near Texingtal in Lower Austria. Young Dollfuss spent his childhood in his step-father's house in the nearby commune

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