Seyss-Inquart government

Seyss-Inquart government
28th Cabinet of Austria
Date formed	11 March 1938 (1938-03-11)
Date dissolved	13 March 1938 (1938-03-13)
People and organisations
Appointed by	Wilhelm Miklas
Chancellor	Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Member party	Nazi Party
History
Election	None
Predecessor	Schuschnigg IV
Successor	Renner IV (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]

Cabinet members

Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office
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	Franz Hueber  [ de ]	11 March 1938	13 March 1938
Minister of Finance	Rudolf Neumayer  [ de ]	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	Wilhelm Wolf  [ de ]	11 March 1938	13 March 1938
State Secretaries
State Secretary of Security Forces	Michael Skubl  [ de ]	11 March 1938	13 March 1938
State Secretary	Friedrich Wimmer  [ de ] [3]	13 March 1938	13 March 1938
State Secretary	Maximilian de Angelis [3]	13 March 1938	13 March 1938

References

Citations

1. Gulick 1948, pp. 1851–1852.
2. Gulick 1948, p. 1852.
3. Wiener Zeitung 1938, p. 2.

Bibliography

• Gulick, Charles A. (1948). Austria; From Habsburg to Hitler. California: University of California Press. ASIN   B002C0SU9Y.
• "Veränderungen in der Bundesregierung" (in German). Austrian National Library. Wiener Zeitung. 14 March 1938. p. 2. Retrieved 26 May 2019.