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
- 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
References
Media related to 1938 in Austria at Wikimedia Commons
