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← 1937 1936 1935 1938 in Austria → 1939 1940 1941
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1938 List of years in Austria

Events from the year 1938 in Austria

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 Gleißner (until 11 March)
• Vienna: Richard Schmitz (until 11 March)
• Vorarlberg: Ernst Winsauer (until 12 March)

Events

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• February 12 – 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 – Anschluss: 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 – The Mauthausen concentration camp is built.

Births

• 9 October – Heinz Fischer, politician
• 13 October – Christiane Hörbiger, actress

Deaths

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References

[REDACTED] Media related to 1938 in Austria at Wikimedia Commons

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