Arthur Seyß-Inquart , born the July 22nd 1892 and dead the October 16th 1946, was an Austrian politician , in favor of the National-socialisme, which supported the Anschluss in 1938, and was governor of the Netherlands during the Second world war.

Biography

Born with Stonařov, in Moravie, Arthur Seyß-Inquart is established as lawyer with Vienna in 1921. It started to militate very early for Anschluss, term which indicates the fastening of Austria in Germany, in the name of a common Germanic culture. Founder of the party Austrian national-Socialist, maintaining the very close links with his German counterpart, it was imposed to the chancellor Schuschnigg - convened by Hitler in Bertechsgaden - as Safety and Minister of Interior Department, the February 15th 1938.

In the logic of the “Hossbach protocol”, which, since 1937, envisaged to found Large Germany, Hitler multiplied the pressures on the Austrian government and obtained the resignation of Schuschnigg. Seyß-Inquart, which immediately replaced it with the Chancellery, called upon Reich then and, on March 12th, the German troops entered Vienna, where they accepted a triumphal reception. Appointed shortly after governor of Austria ( Reichstatthalter ), then representing of the general governor of Poland, Hans Frank, in Cracow (1939), it was named the May 18th 1940 police chief of Reich in the occupied Netherlands. Faithful carrying out, it then followed a policy combining economic plundering, racial persecutions and deportations. Stopped to the Release, he was condemned to died at the time of the Procès of Nuremberg for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity and carried out shortly after.

External bond

• the lawsuit of Arthur Seyß-Inquart in Nuremberg - TRIAL WATCH

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