Edmund Glaise-Horstenau | |
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![]() Portrait by Max Fenichel | |
Vice-Chancellor of Austria | |
In office 11 March 1938 – 13 March 1938 | |
Chancellor | Arthur Seyß-Inquart |
Preceded by | Ludwig Hülgerth |
Succeeded by | Adolf Schärf (1945) |
Minister of the Interior | |
In office 6 November 1936 – 16 February 1938 | |
Chancellor | Kurt Schuschnigg |
Preceded by | Eduard Baar-Baarenfels |
Succeeded by | Arthur Seyß-Inquart |
Personal details | |
Born | Edmund Glaise von Horstenau 27 February 1882 Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 20 July 1946 Nuremberg, Bavaria, Allied-occupied Germany | (aged 64)
Edmund Hugo Guilelmus Glaise von Horstenau (also known as Edmund Glaise-Horstenau; 27 February 1882 – 20 July 1946) was an Austrian Nazi politician who became the last Vice-Chancellor of Austria, appointed by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg under pressure from Adolf Hitler, shortly before the 1938 Anschluss.[1]
During the Second World War Glaise-Horstenau became a general in the German Wehrmacht and served as Plenipotentiary General to the Independent State of Croatia. Dismayed by the atrocities committed by the Ustaše, he was involved in the Lorković-Vokić plot, with the purpose of overthrowing Ante Pavelić's regime and replacing it with a pro-Allied government.[2]
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