Alwine Dollfuß

Alwine Dollfuß (née Glienke; 12 February 1897 – 25 February 1973)[1] was the wife of former Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß. At the time of his murder, she was in Italy with Benito Mussolini, who allowed her the use of his private plane to hurry back to Austria. She is buried in Hietzinger Cemetery next to her husband, and two of her children; Hannerl and Eva. She was also satirized in Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in 1941 as the character 'Betty Dullfeet'.

Alwine Dollfuß ca. 1934

Dollfuß lived for a time after 1946 in Truro, Nova Scotia in Canada together with her two children, before leaving in 1957.[2]

References
  1. Profile of Alwine Dollfuß
  2. Salzburger Nachrichten, April 8, 1946 p. 2 source; her son Rudi Dollfuß remained in Canada lifelong p 192 in thesis (history): „Denn ein Engel kann nicht sterben“. Engelbert Dollfuß 1934-2012: Eine Biographie des Posthumen, by Lucile Dreidemy, University of Strasbourg, 2012 (in German). Alwines daughter Eva (1928–1993) stayed in Canada up to 1955, ibid. p 262
  • Walterskirchen, Gudula Engelbert Dollfuß, Arbeitermörder oder Heldenkanzler (Vienna: Molden Verlag, 2004)
  • Allinson, Mark Austrian Studies, Vol.14, No.1, 1 October 2006
  • Dollfuß, Eva Mein Vater - Hitlers erstes Opfer (Vienna: Amalthea Verlag, 1994)
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