One of my reservations against the OVP incidentally was their active participation in the First Republic in the establishment of Austrofascism and the suppression of the socialists. At least according to Wiki, Figl was a tutee of Dolfuss in politics.
Oh yes, the ÖVP founding fathers were nearly all coming from the
Ständestaat-political hierarchy. They were however often also just coming out of Concentration Camps as well (as were many SPÖ-politicans, the communists mostly spent the war in Moscow)
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