Seyss-Inquart government
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Seyss-Inquart government | |
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28th Cabinet of Austria | |
Date formed | 11 March 1938 |
Date dissolved | 13 March 1938 |
People and organisations | |
Appointed by | Wilhelm Miklas |
Chancellor | Arthur Seyss-Inquart |
Member party | Nazi Party |
History | |
Election(s) | None |
Predecessor | |
Successor | (1945) |
The Seyss-Inquart Government (also called the Anschluss government) was the last federal government of Austria before the annexation of Austria into the German Reich, and existed only from 11 to 13 March 1938.
Background[]
Between 23:00 and 24:00 on 11 March, President Wilhelm Miklas appointed Seyss-Inquart Chancellor.[1] At 1:30 on 12 March, Hugo Jury announced the new government from the balcony of the Federal Chancellery.[2]
Composition[]
The composition of the government were as such:[2]
Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office | ||||||
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Federal Chancellery | |||||||||
Chancellor & acting Minister of National Defence | Arthur Seyss-Inquart | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | ||||||
State Secretary to the Chancellor of Public Security | Ernst Kaltenbrunner | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | ||||||
State Secretary to the Chancellor of Formation of Political Will | Hubert Klausner | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | ||||||
Vice-Chancellor | Edmund Glaise-Horstenau | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | ||||||
Ministers | |||||||||
Minister of Justice | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | |||||||
Minister of Finance | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | |||||||
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry | Anton Reinthaller | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | ||||||
Minister of Trade and Transport | Hans Fischböck | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | ||||||
Minister of Social Affairs | Hugo Jury | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | ||||||
Minister of Education | Oswald Menghin | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | ||||||
Minister of Foreign Affairs | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | |||||||
State Secretaries | |||||||||
State Secretary of Security Forces | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | |||||||
State Secretary | [3] | 13 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | ||||||
State Secretary | Maximilian de Angelis[3] | 13 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 |
References[]
Citations[]
- ^ Gulick 1948, pp. 1851–1852.
- ^ a b Gulick 1948, p. 1852.
- ^ a b Editors 1938, p. 2.
Bibliography[]
- Gulick, Charles A. (1948). Austria; From Habsburg to Hitler. California: University of California Press. ASIN B002C0SU9Y. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- Editors (14 March 1938). "Veränderungen in der Bundesregierung" (in German). Austrian National Library. Wiener Zeitung. p. 2. Retrieved 26 May 2019.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
Categories:
- 1930s in Austria
- 1938 establishments in Austria
- Austrian governments
- Cabinets established in 1938