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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.

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

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

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



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