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2 unusual facts about Sepp Straffner


Sepp Straffner

He was one of the three national presidents who on 4 March 1933 resigned his office during a debate on a railway strike, precipitating a constitutional crisis, the dissolution of parliament and the seizure of power by the Chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss as dictator.

Between 1899 and 1907 he was an official with the Tyrol and Salzburg service of the State Railways at Innsbruck.



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