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
Provincial Christian-Socialist Party , ) but got only 17,285 votes, not enough for a parliamentary seat. On June 21, 1936 the party merged with the Hungarian National Party into "Egyesült Magyar Párt" (EMP, "United Hungarian Party") led by János Esterházy as national executive chairman (until then leader of OKSZP) and Andor Jaross as national chairman. Provincial Christian-Socialist Party The Provincial Christian-Socialist Party (, OKSZP; ; ) was the main political party of ethnic Hungarians in the First Czechoslovak Republic. It was founded on 23 November 1919 in Košice, by the merger of Catholic associations from Bratislava and Košice, but the first party convention