Ostmark (Austria)

Ostmark
Reichsgau of Nazi Germany
1938–1939
CapitalVienna
Government
Reichsstatthalter 
• 1938–1939
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
History 
• Established
1938
• Disestablished
1939
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Federal State of Austria
Nazi Germany
Ostmark in 1941

Ostmark (German pronunciation: [ˈɔstmaʁk] , "Eastern March") was a name that referred historically to the Margraviate of Austria, a medieval frontier march. It was also used in Nazi propaganda from 1938 to 1942 to refer to the formerly independent Federal State of Austria after the Anschluss with Nazi Germany. From the Anschluss until 1939, the official name used was Land Österreich ("State of Austria").[1]

  1. ^ Eckart Reidegeld: Staatliche Sozialpolitik in Deutschland. Band II: Sozialpolitik in Demokratie und Diktatur 1919–1945, 1. Aufl., VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14943-1, S. 406, 542.

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