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
Chancellor of Austria Archchancellor ("Erzkanzler"), later Imperial Chancellor ("Reichserzkanzler"), was created as a high office on the service of the Holy Roman Emperor. The task was usually fulfilled by the Prince-Archbishops of Mainz as Archchancellors of the German lands. In the course of the Imperial reform, the Habsburg Emperor Maximilian I in 1498 attempted to counter the spiritual power of the "Reichserzkanzler" with a more secular position of an Imperial Court Chancellor ("Hofkanzler"), but the two became merged. These were also the times when attempts were made to balance Imperial absolutism by the creation of Imperial Governments ("Reichsregiment"), ultimately a failure. Nevertheless, when