1938 in Austria
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Incumbents
- President: Wilhelm Miklas (until March 13)
- Chancellor: Kurt Schuschnigg (until March 11), Arthur Seyss-Inquart (March 11-March 13)
Governors
- Burgenland: Hans Sylvester (until 11 March)
- Carinthia: Arnold Sucher (until 11 March)
- Lower Austria: Josef Reither (until 12 March)
- Salzburg: Franz Rehrl (until 12 March); Rolph Trommer (3 March-12 March)
- Styria: Karl Maria Stepan (until 12 March)
- Tyrol: Josef Schumacher (until 12 March)
- Upper Austria: Heinrich GleiÃner (until 11 March)
- Vienna: Richard Schmitz (until 11 March)
- Vorarlberg: Ernst Winsauer (until 12 March)
Events
- February 12 â Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg meets Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden and is forced to yield to German demands for greater Nazi participation in the Austrian government.
- March 12 â Anschluss: On March 11â13, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed the neighboring country of Austria (Ãsterreich). This event is known as the Anschluss. âAnschlussâ is a German word that means âconnectionâ or âjoining.âGerman troops occupy Austria; annexation is declared the following day. German troops occupy Austria; annexation is declared the following day.
- In a result, the Austrian electorate in a national referendum approved Anschluss by an 99.73%.
- July â The Mauthausen concentration camp is built.
Births
- 9 October â Heinz Fischer, politician
- 13 October â Christiane Hörbiger, actress
Deaths
- 17 May â Jakob Ehrlich, politician and Zionist [1]
- 4 June â Otto Bauer, Social Democrat (born 1881; heart attack)[2]
- 18 October â Karl Kautsky, philosopher and Marxist theorist (born 1854)[3]
