State government of Seyß-Inquart

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The state government of Seyß-Inquart was the state government of Austria in the Third Reich from 1938 until the Ostmark Act came into force on May 1, 1939.

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The federal government of Seyß-Inquart (also connection cabinet ) was the last federal government of Austria before the connection to Hitler's Germany and existed only from March 11th to 13th, 1938.

The government continued to function as the state government of Austria in the Third Reich under the supervision of the Reich government. It was headed by Arthur Seyß-Inquart , who was appointed Reich Governor on March 15 . Under the supervision of the Reich Commissioner for the Reunification of Austria with the German Reich, Josef Bürckel , the state government had to liquidate the Austrian central offices. “As Reich Governor in Austria, Seyß-Inquart carried out the confiscation of Jewish property. [...] Political opponents of the Nazis [were] taken to concentration camps by the Gestapo, mistreated and in many cases killed. "

In May 1938, Adolf Hitler decided to simplify the state government: the Reichsstatthalter as head of the state government now headed the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Education and Culture . His representative as head of government and as Minister of the Interior was Minister Hubert Klausner . Minister Hans Fischböck took over the Ministry of Finance in addition to the Ministry of Commerce. State Secretary Ernst Kaltenbrunner was entrusted with the management of the entire police system, the new State Secretary Otto Wächter was entrusted with the management of the internal administration department. The new State Secretary Friedrich Plattner was now in charge of the education, instruction and popular education department . State Secretary Friedrich Wimmer was now responsible for the legal harmonization department and State Secretary Kajetan Mühlmann was responsible for the art, propaganda and advertising department .

Hitler had the state of Austria renamed "Ostmark" by ordinance on the establishment of the Reich trustee administration in the state of Austria of October 14, 1938. When the Ostmark Act came into force on May 1, 1939, the state government was dissolved. The powers passed from the Reich Governor to the Reich Commissioner. The implementation of this law was completed on March 31, 1940. At the same time as the takeover of power, Vienna was deprived of power as the capital: It lost its metropolitan position and relations between the federal states and districts with Vienna were cut off; The capital was exclusively Berlin . The state structures remained (apart from the division of Burgenland and the creation of Tyrol-Vorarlberg ) as structures of the Reichsgaue .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Decree of the Führer and Reich Chancellor on the Austrian provincial government . In: BGBl . 1938 I p. 249 . March 15, 1938 ( online at ALEX ).
  2. ^ The judgment of Nuremberg. dtv documents no.8. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1961, p. 246.
  3. ↑ documents . In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): "Anschluss" 1938. A documentation . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-215-06898-2 , p. 654 f . (Official communication from the Reich governor in Austria, Arthur Seyß-Inquart, on the simplification of the Austrian provincial government, May 24, 1938).
  4. ^ Eckart Reidegeld: State Social Policy in Germany , Vol. II: Social Policy in Democracy and Dictatorship 1919–1945 , Wiesbaden 2006, p. 406 .
  5. ↑ Ernst Hanisch : The long shadow of the state. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1994, p. 363.