1938 in Austria

Incumbents

• President: Wilhelm Miklas
• Chancellor: Kurt Schuschnigg, Arthur Seyss-Inquart

  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