Eduard Hedvicek

Eduard Hedvicek was born in 1878 in Kojetín, Austria, now in the Czech Republic, and died 1947 in Vienna, Austria. He was the secretary of Engelbert Dollfuß, the Austrian Chancellor before the Anschluss. On July 25, 1934 he unsuccessfully tried to prevent Dollfuß's assassination by Otto Planetta. He testified at the trial of the murderers as a "Crown" (prosecution) witness and was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit by the Austrian government for his heroic efforts. He was imprisoned by the Nazis after the Anschluss and died after World War II.

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