Federal Government Schuschnigg IV

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The federal government Schuschnigg IV was in office from February 16, 1938 to March 11, 1938 (see Ständestaat (Austria) ). Kurt Schuschnigg was head of government until his resignation .

The formation of this federal government was the result of the Berchtesgaden Agreement of February 12, 1938. In it Hitler ultimately demanded the appointment of the National Socialist shop stewards Arthur Seyß-Inquart as Minister of the Interior and Security, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau as Minister of the Army and Hans Fischböck as Minister of Finance. Schuschnigg and State Secretary Guido Schmidt achieved that no National Socialist Army and Finance Ministers had to be appointed, but the strictly anti-National Socialist Chief of Staff Alfred Jansa would be recalled. Federal President Wilhelm Miklas , whose task it was to appoint new members of the government, initially refused to let Seyss-Inquart take over responsibility for the executive. Only when Schuschnigg announced his resignation did Miklas agree.

From March 11, 1938 until the "Anschluss" of Austria two days later, Arthur Seyß-Inquart was Federal Chancellor of the Seyß-Inquart Federal Government .

Members

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The government on austria-forum.org
  2. ↑ Kurt Bauer : The Dark Years: Politics and Everyday Life in National Socialist Austria 1938 to 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-596-29903-4 , pp. 24 ff . ( Chapter online as a reading sample on the publisher's website [PDF; 82 kB ]).