Eduard Hedvicek

Eduard Hedvicek (Czech: Eduard Hedvíček) was born in 1878 in Kojetín, Moravia, Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic, and died 1947 in Vienna, Austria. He was the secretary of Engelbert Dollfuß, the Austrian Chancellor before the Anschluss. On July 25, 1934, he unsuccessfully tried to prevent Dollfuß's assassination by Otto Planetta. He testified at the trial of the murderers as a "Crown" (prosecution) witness and was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit Signum Laudis by the Austrian government for his heroic efforts. He was imprisoned by the Nazis after Germany annexed Austria. His imprisonment was a matter of personal revenge for Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the SS-Obergruppenführer and Chef der Reichssicherheitshauptamtes of the Nazi government and a famous Austrian Nazi, who himself was involved in Dollfuß's assassination and was for this and other crimes hanged after the war.

Eduard Hedvicek died after the war in 1947.

Publications

Assassination in Vienna, Walter B. Maass, published by Charles Scribners's Sons, New York
The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS, by Heinz Zollin Höhne and Richard Barry
Dollfuss, Gordon Brook-Shepherd, published by Macmillan&Co Ltd, London, 1961
První zemřel kancléř, Vladimír Bauman and Miroslav Hladký, Praha, 1968
Na dně byla smrt, Otakar Brožek and Jiří Horský, Praha, 1968

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