Alwine Dollfuß

Alwine Dollfuß
Alwine Dollfuss ca. 1934
Born12 February 1897
Died25 February 1973(1973-02-25) (aged 76)
Resting placeHietzinger Cemetery
Spouse
(m. 1921; died 1934)
Children3

Alwine Dollfuss (Alternatively Dollfuß; née Glienke; 12 February 1897 – 25 February 1973) 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'.

From 1946 to 1957, Dollfuß lived in Truro, Nova Scotia in Canada together with her two children.