Edmund Glaise-Horstenau

Edmund Glaise-Horstenau
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 [de]
Succeeded by	Arthur Seyß-Inquart
Personal details
Born	Edmund Glaise von Horstenau (1882-02-27)27 February 1882 Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary
Died	20 July 1946(1946-07-20) (aged 64) Nuremberg, Bavaria, Allied-occupied Germany

Edmund Glaise-Horstenau (also known as Edmund Glaise von 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]