page_title: Reichsstatthalter
section_title: Anschluss
hierarchical_section_title: Reichsstatthalter / Nazi Germany / Anschluss
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Karte der administrativen Gliederung des Großdeutschen Reiches in Länder, preußische Provinzen und Reichsgaue 1944. English: Map of the administrative division of the Greater German Reich ("Großdeutsches Reich"/"Großdeutschland"/"Greater German Empire"/"Greater Germany") by federal states, Prussian provinces and Reichsgaue 1944 (in German). Polski: Mapa Wielkiej Rzeszy Niemieckiej (1944)
context_page_description: The Reichsstatthalter was a title used in the German Empire and later in Nazi Germany.
context_section_description: 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 April 1939.  Also, Josef Bürckel was appointed Reichskommissar für die Wiedervereiningung Österreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich (Reich Commissioner for Reunification of Austria with the German Reich) from 23 April 1938 to 31 March 1940. At that point, each constitutive Land (with some differences in borders, e.g., Burgenland was partitioned away) was placed under the administration of its own Reichsstatthalter.
caption: The (de facto abolished) states and annexed areas of Nazi Germany, 1944.
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