Arthur Seyss-Inquart with Adolf Hitler . Seyss-Inquart drafted the legislative act reducing Austria to a province of Germany and signed it into law on 13 March. With Hitler's approval he became Governor Reichsstatthalter of the newly named Ostmark, thus becoming Hitler's personal representative in Austria.

WIENNA, AUSTRIA - 1938: Arthur Seyss-Inquart with Adolf Hitler . Seyss-Inquart drafted the legislative act reducing Austria to a province of Germany and signed it into law on 13 March. With Hitler's approval he became Governor (Reichsstatthalter) of the newly named Ostmark, thus becoming Hitler's personal representative in Austria.