Eduard Hedvicek
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Eduard Hedvicek born 1878 in Kojetín, Austria, now Czech Republic, died 1947 in Vienna, Austria was secretary of Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Chancellor before the Anschluss. On July 25, 1934 he unsuccessfully tried to prevent Dollfuss' assassination by Otto Planetta, he testified at the trial of murderers as a witness for prosecution (Crown Witness) and was awarded Gold medal of merit by Austrian government for his heroic efforts. He was imprisoned by the Nazis after the Anschluss and died after World War II.
[edit] 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
- První zemřel kancléř, Vladimír Bauman a Miroslav Hladký, Praha 1968
- Na dne byla smrt, Otakar Brožek a Jiří Horský, Praha 1968
