Emil Fey
| Emil Fey | |
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| 14th Vice-Chancellor of Austria | |
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In office 21 September 1933 – 1 May 1934 |
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| Chancellor | Engelbert Dollfuss |
| Preceded by | Franz Winkler |
| Succeeded by | Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg |
| Federal Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 30 July 1934 – 29 October 1935 |
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| Chancellor | Kurt Schuschnigg |
| Preceded by | Robert Kerber |
| Succeeded by | Eduard Baar-Baarenfels |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 March 1886 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 16 March 1938 (aged 51) Vienna, Nazi Germany |
| Political party |
Heimatblock Christian Social Party Fatherland's Front |
| Profession | Military |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Emil Fey (23 March 1886 – 16 March 1938) was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, leader of the right-wing paramilitary Heimwehr forces and politician of the First Austrian Republic. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Austria (German: Vizekanzler) from 1933 to 1934, leading the country into the period of Austrofascism under Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. Fey played a vital role in the violent suppression of the Republikanischer Schutzbund and the Social Democratic Workers' Party during the 1934 Austrian Civil War.
A career officer since 1908, Fey in the rank of a Major fought with the Common Army in World War I and was awarded the Military Order of Maria Theresa in 1916. After the war, he joined the Carinthian paramilitary Heimwehr forces against the Yugoslavian troops. In 1927 he founded a local Heimwehr branch in Vienna and became a member of the conservative Christian Social Party. As his political career proceeded, he increasingly rivalled with Heimwehr leader Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg; both commanders backed the rise of Chancellor Dollfuss and his successor Kurt Schuschnigg, only to be largely disempowered after the implementation of the authoritarian Federal State of Austria (Ständestaat).
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