!!!Seyß-Inquart, Arthur

b. Stonařov, Czech Republic (then Stannern) near Jihlava (then Iglau), July 22, 1892, 
d. Nuremberg (Germany), Oct. 16, 1946 (executed). Lawyer and 
National-Socialist politician. Member of Catholic-national 
associations, from 1931 contacts with the NSDAP (National Socialist 
German Workers´ Party); member in 1938. In 1937 he was appointed 
member of the State Council to ensure contact with the national 
opposition, on February 16, 1938, after the negotiations between K.  
Schuschnigg and A. Hitler in Berchtesgaden, Minister of the Interior. 
When Schuschnigg stepped down on March 11, 1938 S.-I. became 
Chancellor and formed the National-Socialist government, which passed 
the law on the  Anschluss, the incorporation of Austria into the 
German Reich on March 13, 1938. The government had the following 
composition: Vice-Chancellor Edmund  Glaise-Horstenau; Federal 
Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilhelm Wolff; Federal Minister of Justice 
Franz  Hueber; Federal Minister of Education Oswald  Menghin; Federal 
Minister of Social Administration Hugo  Jury; Federal Minister of 
Finance Rudolf  Neumayer; Federal Minister of Agriculture and Forestry 
Anton  Reinthaller; Federal Minister of Commerce and Transport Hans 
Fischboeck; the Federal Ministry of Defense was headed by Chancellor 
S.-I.; State Secretary of Security chief constable Michael Skubl 
(stepped down); assistant to the Chancellor for matters of public 
security Ernst  Kaltenbrunner (leader of the Austrian SS); for matters 
of information and education of the public Major Hubert Klausner (head 
of the Austrian NSDAP).

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S.-I. was head of the Austrian government (with the title of Reich 
Governor (Reichsstatthalter)), in the rank of an SS Colonel General, 
from March 15, 1938 to April 30, 1939 he became head of the Austrian 
government, which had been reduced in size in May 1938 and was to 
eliminate centres of the opposition in Austria; the government was 
substantially curtailed by Reich Governor J.  Buerckel and dissolved 
by the Ostmark law, which entered into force on May 1, 1939. S.-I. was 
Minister of the German Reich without portfolio between 1939-1945. He 
was Reich Commissioner for the occupied Netherlands 1940-1945. S.-I. 
was responsible for the shootings of hostages, oppression of the 
population and deportations of Jews. He was sentenced to death for 
these crimes in the Nuremberg trials.

!Literature
H. J. Neumann, A. S.-I., 1970; W. Rosar, Dt. 
Gemeinschaft, S.-I. und der Anschluss, 1971.



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