Died 1946-10-16.
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Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Arthur Seyss-Inquart was an Austrian Nazi politician and convicted war criminal who served as Chancellor of Austria in 1938 for two days before the Anschluss. His positions in Nazi Germany included deputy governor to Hans Frank in the General Government of Occupied Poland, and Reichskommissar for the German-occupied Netherlands. In the latter role, he shared responsibility for the deportation of D…
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politics · Austrian Nazi politician (1892–1946) · politician · lawyer · jurist · writer · Holocaust perpetrator · also Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reich Kommissar Seijss-Inquart, Arthur Zajtich, Seyss-Inquart
Born 22 July 1892 · Died 16 October 1946 · Q650219
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1946· 4 entries
“The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.”
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“The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. That Austria would one day return to the Reich was a matter of course for all National Socialists and for true Germans in Austria.”
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“We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.”
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1945· 1 entry
Career landmark: Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (1945–1945).
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1944· 1 entry
For a further 250,000 Dutch workers and in that year sent only 12,000 people
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1940· 2 entries
Career landmark: Reichskommissar (1940–1945).
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Was appointed Reichskommissar of the occupied Netherlands
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1939· 2 entries
Awarded Danzig Cross 2nd Class (1939).
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Seyss-Inquart was named as the Chief of Civil Administration for Southern Poland, but did not take up that post before the General Government was created, in which he became Deputy to the Governor General Hans Frank, rem
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1938· 3 entries
Schuschnigg resigned in the face of a German invasion, and Seyss-Inquart was appointed his successor
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Career landmark: member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany (1938–1945).
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Career landmark: Federal Chancellor of Austria (1938–1938).
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1934· 1 entry
Became a State Councillor from 1937 under Kurt Schuschnigg
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1917· 1 entry
Won Wound Medal (Austria-Hungary) (1917).
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1911· 1 entry
Seyss-Inquart met Gertrud Maschka
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1892· 2 entries
Born 1892-07-22.
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In Stannern (Czech: Stonařov), a German-speaking village in the neighbourhood of the predominantly German-speaking town of Iglau (Czech: Jihlava)
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