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Figl had played a minor role in pre-Anschluss politics. Politically to the left of Dollfuss, he was never close to the inner circle of Dollfuss' Christian Social Party. A peasant-born agronomist, Figl was a director of the Catholic Bauernbund (farmer's association) of Lower Austria...
From the party that sent him first into politics, the stolid thick-necked peasants of the Lower Austrian Bauernbund, Chancellor Dollfuss got a popular demonstration to offset Nazi propaganda. By special trains 100,000 of them came up to Vienna, stomped under streaming banners eight abreast round the Ringstrasse. In the railway station the little Chancellor barked excitedly: "This shows how ridiculous is the allegation that the people are not behind the Government. . . . You are my plebiscite...
After the War Lieut. Dollfuss went back to his farmers, became Secretary of the Lower Austrian Bauernbund or Farmers' League, began organizing a farmers' co-operative trade union, which was later to become one of the country's most important political parties. Railroads are vital to Austrian farmers. In 1930 the farmers got him a seat on the State Railway Board; by October he was President of the Federal Railways. Next year saw him Minister of Agriculture & Forestry in the Cabinet of Chancellor Otto Ender (now Minister-without-portfolio in the Dollfuss Cabinet) and he held...
...Conscience." Four feet eleven inches high is Engelbert Dollfuss, and he weighs less than 125 lb. His nickname, "Millimetternich," is an affectionate reference to physical smallness combined with political sagacity. His clothes are neat, impeccably brushed but of slightly archaic cut that smacks of the wheat fields and the Bauernbund. His most noticeable characteristics are his smile, which is constant, and the strength of his fingers. Like most Austrians he is a politely limp handshaker, but to hearty knuckle-grinders he can return a grip of steel. In the Dollfuss character, nothing is so important as his ardent, almost fanatical...
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