!!!Fey, Emil

b. Vienna, March 23, 1886, 
d. Vienna (suicide), March 16, 1938, politician (Christian Social 
Party), officer. 1931 provincial leader of the Vienna home defence 
force, the "Wiener Heimatschutz" (E. R.  Starhemberg's rival), 
1932-1933 Staatssekretaer for security matters; from 1933-1935 he was 
alternately Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Security and of the 
Interior in the Dollfuss and Schuschnigg governments; substantially 
involved in inciting and putting down the  Uprising of February 1934. 
It is not clear what his exact role was in the  July Putsch of 1934, 
during which he was in the hands of the putschists in the Federal 
Chancellery for several hours. Became president of the Danube 
Steamship Company (DDSG) in 1935. In October 1936 expelled from the 
Heimwehr (paramilitary force).

!Literature
F. Oswald, Die Stellung von Major E. F. in der Politik der 
1. Republik und des Staendestaates, 1964.



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