Fatherland Front (Austria) the German nationalists, organised in the Greater German People's Party and the "Landbund". Since 1921 the Christian Social Party had formed coalition governments along with the German nationalists; Chancellor Ignaz Seipel, a proponent of Catholic social teaching, advocated the idea of a "corporated" state surmounting the parliamentary system, based on the encyclicals "Rerum novarum" (1891) by Pope Leo XIII and "Quadragesimo anno" (1931) by Pope Pius XI. On 10 May 1932 the Christian Social politician Engelbert Dollfuss was designated Chancellor of Austria by President Wilhelm Miklas. Dollfuss formed another right-wing government together with the "Landbund" and the "Heimatblock", the political
Chancellor Chancellor Chancellor () is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the "cancellarii" of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the "cancelli" or lattice work screens of a basilica or law court, which separated the judge and counsel from the audience. A chancellor's office is called a chancellery or chancery. The word is now used in the titles of many various officers in all kinds of settings (government, education, religion). Nowadays the term is most often used to describe: The Chancellor of Austria, denominated ' for males and ' for