Federal State of Austria in 1931 pursued the idea of overcoming the ongoing class struggle by the implementation of a corporative form of government modelled on Italian fascism and Portugal’s Estado Novo. The CS politician Engelbert Dollfuss, appointed Chancellor of Austria in 1932, on 4 March 1933 saw an opportunity in the resignation of Social Democrat Karl Renner as president of the Austrian "Nationalrat", after irregularities occurred during a voting process. Dollfuss called the incident a "self-elimination" ("Selbstausschaltung") of the parliament and had the following meeting on 15 March forcibly prorogued by the forces of the Vienna police department. His party fellow, President Wilhelm
Chancellor of Austria The official residence and executive office of the Chancellor is the Chancellery, which is located at the Ballhausplatz in the center of Vienna. Both, the Chancellor as well as the Government are appointed by the President, who also holds the right to dismiss them. The current officeholder is Sebastian Kurz, who was sworn in on 18 December 2017 by Alexander Van der Bellen. The use of the term Chancellor ("Kanzler", derived from ) as head of the chancery writing office can be traced back as far as the ninth century, when under King Louis the German the office of the