Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg
![Ernst Rüdiger Camillo von Starhemberg in ''[[Heimwehr]]'' uniform](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/ErnstR%C3%BCdigerF%C3%BCrstStarhembergBA1556417.jpg)
Starhemberg was a leader of the Heimwehr and later of the Fatherland Front. He served in the Bundesrat between 1920 and 1930, as Minister of Interior in 1930, Vice-Chancellor in 1934 and subsequently Acting Chancellor and Leader of the Front after the murder of Engelbert Dollfuß, relinquishing the former position after a few days. Disenchanted by the moderate ways of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, he was ousted from power in 1936, when the Heimwehr was dissolved, and fled the country after the Anschluss to avoid retaliation from vengeful Nazis.
Starhemberg lived in exile in Switzerland and served with the western Allies in the British and Free French Air Forces for a short period at the beginning of World War II, but became disenchanted with them when they entered into an alliance with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, which he viewed as equally evil as the Nazis. He left for Argentina where he spent the next thirteen years in exile. He died during an extended visit to Austria in 1956.
He was the 1,163rd Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Austrian Order. Provided by Wikipedia
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