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
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