Eduard Hedvicek was born in 1878 in Kojetín

Kojetín

Kojetín is a Moravian town, in the Olomouc Region, the Czech Republic. It has 6,557 inhabitants.There are multiple pre-medieval historic records documenting existence and history of Kojetín in Czech and Moravian archives....

, Moravia

Moravia

Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...

, now in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

, and died 1947 in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. He was the secretary of Engelbert Dollfuß, the Austrian Chancellor before the Anschluss

Anschluss

The Anschluss , also known as the ', was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938....

. On July 25, 1934, he unsuccessfully tried to prevent Dollfuß's assassination

Assassination

To carry out an assassination is "to murder by a sudden and/or secret attack, often for political reasons." Alternatively, assassination may be defined as "the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons."An assassination may be...

 by Otto Planetta

Otto Planetta

Otto Planetta born August 2, 1899 in Vyškov, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Czech Republic, died by execution on July 31, 1934 in Vienna, Austria. On July 25, 1934 he had murdered Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Chancellor before the Anschluss. He and the other assassins were members of SS Regiment...

. 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. His imprisonment was a matter of personal revenge from Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Ernst Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany during World War II. Between January 1943 and May 1945, he held the offices of Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt , President of Interpol and, as a Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei und Waffen-SS, he was the...

 SS-Obergruppenführer and Chef d. Reichssicherheitshauptamtes, famous Austrian Nazi, who himself was involved in Dollfuß's assassination and was for this and other crimes hanged after the war. Eduard Hedvicek died after the war in 1947.

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
  Richard Barry
  Richard Barry is a former Irish Fine Gael politician. A publican before entering politics, he first stood for election in the Cork East constituency at the 1951 general election, but was unsuccessful. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at a by-election in 1953 following the death of the Labour...
  
  
• První zemřel kancléř, Vladimír Bauman and Miroslav Hladký, Praha, 1968
• Na dně byla smrt, Otakar Brožek and Jiří Horský, Praha, 1968