Seyss-Inquart, Arthur

Seyss-Inquart, Arthur
born July 22, 1892, Stannern, near Iglau, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
died Oct. 16, 1946, Nürnberg, Ger.

Austrian Nazi leader.

He served in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I and was seriously wounded. Later a lawyer in Vienna, he became a leader of the moderate faction of the Austrian Nazis and served on the federal council of state (1937–38). In response to German pressure, he was named minister of interior and security and then replaced Kurt von Schuschnigg as chancellor (1938). He welcomed the Anschluss by Germany and became governor of the Austrian administration (1938–39). In World War II he was German high commissioner of The Netherlands (1940–45) and carried out the Nazi policy against Dutch Jews. He was tried at the Nürnberg trials and executed as a war criminal.

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▪ Austrian politician
born July 22, 1892, Stannern, near Iglau, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]
died Oct. 16, 1946, Nürnberg, Ger.

      Austrian Nazi leader who was chancellor of Austria during the Anschluss (annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938).

      Seyss-Inquart served in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I and was seriously wounded. Returning to Vienna after the war, he became a lawyer there in 1921. He also became a fervent advocate of a political union of Austria with Germany, and he cultivated close ties with the Austrian Nazi Party. A leader of the moderate “legal” faction of the Austrian Nazis, Seyss-Inquart was appointed to the Austrian Staatsrat (federal council of state) in June 1937 in order to bring the Nazis into cooperation with the government. In February 1938, in response to German pressure, he was named minister of interior and security, a prelude to his replacement of Kurt von Schuschnigg as chancellor on March 11, 1938, the eve of Anschluss. Long a proponent of German-Austrian unification, he openly welcomed the incorporation of Austria into Germany that followed in the same month after the invasion by German troops.

      Subsequently he served as Reichsstatthalter (governor) of the new Austrian provincial administration until April 30, 1939. He was later appointed deputy governor in Poland and eventually Reichskommissar (commissioner) of the occupied Netherlands, where he was chiefly responsible for the establishment of a system of terror, the shooting of hostages, extortion, and the mass deportation of the great majority of Dutch Jews (approximately 120,000 people), mostly to Auschwitz. Following the defeat of Germany in World War II, he was tried and executed as a war criminal at Nürnberg.

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