Austrian Civil War many hundreds suffered injury. Surprisingly, the violence soon died down and the factions took their battle from the streets back into the political institutions. However, the travails of the First Republic only got worse in the following years. The Great Depression also showed its effects in Austria, resulting in high unemployment and massive inflation. In addition, from 1933 — the year Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany — National Socialist sympathisers (who wanted a unification of Austria with Hitler's Germany) threatened the Austrian state from within. On 4 March 1933, Christian Social Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß suspended the Austrian Parliament. In
Wolfgang Brandstetter serve as the country's Minister of Justice. He later succeeded Reinhold Mitterlehner in becoming the Vice-Chancellor of Austria in May 2017. Wolfgang Brandstetter Wolfgang Brandstetter is an independent Austrian politician, law-professor and constitutional judge. He served as the Minister of Justice of Austria, as well as the country's Vice Chancellor. He left office upon the swearing-in of Heinz-Christian Strache to his position on 18 December 2017. In February 2018 Brandstetter was appointed as a member of the Constitutional Court of Austria. In 2007 he became director of the Institute for Austrian and European Economic Criminal Law at the Vienna University