Federal State of Austria

Federal State of Austria
*Bundesstaat Österreich* (German)
Federal State of Austria Bundesstaat Österreich (German)
1934–1938
	Flags Coat of arms
	Anthem: Sei gesegnet ohne Ende; (English: "Be Blessed Without End")
	The Federal State of Austria in 1938
Capital	Vienna
Common languages	German (Austrian German)
Religion	Christianity (Catholic; Eastern Orthodox; Protestant); Judaism;
Demonym(s)	Austrian
Government	Federal Austrofascist one-party republic under an authoritarian corporatist dictatorship
President
• 1934–1938	Wilhelm Miklas
Chancellor
• 1934	Engelbert Dollfuss
• 1934–1938	Kurt Schuschnigg
• 1938	Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Legislature	Nationalrat
Historical era	Interwar period
• May Constitution	1 May 1934
• Assassination of Dollfuss	25 July 1934
• Berchtesgaden Agreement	12 February 1938
• Anschluss	13 March 1938
Currency	Austrian schilling
ISO 3166 code	AT
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	First Austrian Republic
State of Austria
Today part of	Austria

The Federal State of Austria (Austrian German: Bundesstaat Österreich; colloquially known as the "Ständestaat") was a continuation of the First Austrian Republic between 1934 and 1938 when it was a one-party state led by the conservative, nationalist, corporatist and Catholic Fatherland Front. The Ständestaat concept, derived from the notion of Stände ("estates" or "corporations"), was advocated by leading regime politicians such as Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg. The result was an authoritarian government based on a mix of Italian Fascist and conservative Catholic influences.

It ended in March 1938 with the Anschluss, the German annexation of Austria. Austria would not become an independent country again until 1955, when the Austrian State Treaty ended the Allied occupation of Austria.

^ ^a ^b "1934 to 1938: Ständestaat in the Name of "God, the Almighty"". Wien.gv.at. Vienna, Austria: City of Vienna. Retrieved 2025-03-20. The proclamation of the authoritarian "May Constitution" on 1 May 1934 marked the beginning of the Ständestaat, a corporative authoritarian system under the leadership of the Fatherland Front (Vaterländische Front). Also known as Austrofascism, it meant the end of democratic parliamentarianism and party pluralism.
^ Thorpe, Julie (April 2010). "Austrofascism: Revisiting the 'Authoritarian State' 40 Years On". Journal of Contemporary History. 45 (2). JSTOR: 318. doi:10.1177/0022009409356916. JSTOR 20753589. Retrieved 2025-03-20. For example, Gerald Stourzh has argued that Social Democrats as well as the Austrofascist state helped propagate the idea of Austria as the 'better German state', in opposition to the nazi concept of German nationhood.
^ Thorpe 2010.
^ Badie, Bertrand; Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Morlino, Leonardo, eds. (7 September 2011). International Encyclopedia of Political Science. SAGE Publications (published 2011). ISBN 9781483305394. Retrieved 9 September 2020. [...] fascist Italy [...] developed a state structure known as the corporate state with the ruling party acting as a mediator between 'corporations' making up the body of the nation. Similar designs were quite popular elsewhere in the 1930s. The most prominent examples were Estado Novo in Portugal (1932-1968) and Brazil (1937-1945), the Austrian Standestaat (1933-1938), and authoritarian experiments in Estonia, Romania, and some other countries of East and East-Central Europe,
^ Pelinka, Anton; Lassner, Alexander (2003). The Dollfuss / Schuschnigg Era in Austria: A Reassessment. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7658-0970-4.

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[Vienna-1] "1934 to 1938: Ständestaat in the Name of "God, the Almighty"". Wien.gv.at. Vienna, Austria: City of Vienna. Retrieved 2025-03-20. The proclamation of the authoritarian "May Constitution" on 1 May 1934 marked the beginning of the Ständestaat, a corporative authoritarian system under the leadership of the Fatherland Front (Vaterländische Front). Also known as Austrofascism, it meant the end of democratic parliamentarianism and party pluralism.

[2] Thorpe, Julie (April 2010). "Austrofascism: Revisiting the 'Authoritarian State' 40 Years On". Journal of Contemporary History. 45 (2). JSTOR: 318. doi:10.1177/0022009409356916. JSTOR 20753589. Retrieved 2025-03-20. For example, Gerald Stourzh has argued that Social Democrats as well as the Austrofascist state helped propagate the idea of Austria as the 'better German state', in opposition to the nazi concept of German nationhood.

[FOOTNOTEThorpe2010-3] Thorpe 2010.

[Corporatism-5] Badie, Bertrand; Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Morlino, Leonardo, eds. (7 September 2011). International Encyclopedia of Political Science. SAGE Publications (published 2011). ISBN 9781483305394. Retrieved 9 September 2020. [...] fascist Italy [...] developed a state structure known as the corporate state with the ruling party acting as a mediator between 'corporations' making up the body of the nation. Similar designs were quite popular elsewhere in the 1930s. The most prominent examples were Estado Novo in Portugal (1932-1968) and Brazil (1937-1945), the Austrian Standestaat (1933-1938), and authoritarian experiments in Estonia, Romania, and some other countries of East and East-Central Europe,

[6] Pelinka, Anton; Lassner, Alexander (2003). The Dollfuss / Schuschnigg Era in Austria: A Reassessment. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7658-0970-4.

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