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4 unusual facts about Emil Fey


Emil Fey

Emil Fey (23 March 1886 – 16 March 1938, suicide) was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, leader of the right-wing paramilitary Heimwehr forces and politician of the First Austrian Republic.

During the July Putsch and Dollfuss' assassination he stayed in the background, later accusations of collaboration with the Nazis have never been conclusively established.

He once again joined the Schuschnigg cabinet as Minister for Interior until his final disempowerment in 1935, shunt off to the Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft.

He immediately had all conventions of the Social Democrats, the Communists and the Austrian Nazis banned.



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