Reichsstatthalter
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The Reichsstatthalter was a title used in the German Empire and later in Nazi Germany.
German Empire
Nazi Germany
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
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Arthur Seyss-Inquart was an Austrian Nazi politician and convicted war criminal who served as Chancellor of Austria in 1938 for two days before the Anschluss. His positions in Nazi Germany included de
Reichsstatthalter
…as mentioned above, the Reich Governors were responsible to him. After Austria's Anschluss ("union") with Germany, its last pre-Anschluss Chancellor, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, became its first Reichsstatthalter and Führer der Österreichischen Landesregierung (Leader of the Austrian State Government) from 15 March 1938 to 30…
Seyss-Inquart c. 1940s
Seyss-Inquart in 1925
Seyss-Inquart with Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, Kaltenbrunner and Bormann in Vienna, in 1938
Seyss-Inquart in The Hague (1940)