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Arthur Seyss-Inquart (German: Seyß-Inquart [ˈartuːɐ̯ saɪs ˈɪŋkvart] ⓘ; 22 July 1892 – 16 October 1946) was an Austrian Nazi politician who served as Chancellor of Austria in 1938 for two days before the Anschluss.
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.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart in The Hague. The German domination of the Netherlands began with the German invasion.On the day of the capitulation (15 May 1940), the entire ministerial staff fled to London to form a Dutch government in exile.
The Nuremberg executions took place on October 16, 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials.Ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Julius Streicher.
Schuschnigg was replaced by Arthur Seyss-Inquart, a Nazi caretaker who held the office for two days, until Austria was annexed into Nazi Germany. [ 7 ] Austria under National Socialism lost its original republican system of government and was administered by Reichsstatthalter Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1938–1939), Reichskommissar Josef Bürckel ...
May 1939: Arthur Seyss-Inquart enters the Cabinet as a Reich Minister (without portfolio). March 1940: Fritz Todt enters the Cabinet as Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions. January 1941: Franz Schlegelberger succeeds Gürtner as Acting Reich Minister of Justice. February 1941: Dorpmüller, Reich Minister of Transport, joins the Nazi Party.
The new Austrian Chancellor Arthur Seyss-Inquart proclaimed the Anschluss annexing the country to Germany. President Wilhelm Miklas refused to sign the document and resigned. [15] Léon Blum became Prime Minister of France for the second time. Eighteen of the defendants in the Trial of the Twenty-One were sentenced to death.
The first wartime promotions to SS-Obergruppenführer occurred in April 1940 when the rank was granted to Joachim von Ribbentrop, Martin Bormann and Hans Lammers; Arthur Seyss-Inquart and Otto Dietrich were promoted a year later.