1938 German parliamentary election and referendum

none February 2025 Nazi Germany 1938 legislative 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum 1936 yes 1938 04 10yes 1938 12 04 West 1949 →East 1949 List of Reichstag deputies in the Third Reich (3rd electoral term) List of Reichstag deputies in the Third Reich (4th electoral term) All 814 seats in the Reichstag 408 49,634,569 ( 9.2%) 99.6% ( 0.6pp) Adolf Hitler cropped restored (3x4 cropped).jpg 170 170 200 0 0 Adolf Hitler Nazi Party 98.8%, 741 seats 814 73 48,905,004 99.1% 0.3 pp Government Hitler cabinet NSDAP Government after election Hitler cabinet NSDAP Parliamentary elections were held in Germany (including recently annexed Austria) on 10 April 1938.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p762 978-3-8329-5609-7 They were the final elections to the Reichstag during Nazi rule and took the form of a single-question referendum asking whether voters approved of a single list of Nazi and 11 pro-Nazi "guest" candidates for the 814-member Reichstag,https://www.reichstagsprotokolle.de/Blatt4_h1_bsb00000146_00127.html Reichstagshandbücher, 1938/1: Verzeichnis der Mitglieder des Reichstags Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 2012-09-04 as well as the recent annexation of Austria. Turnout in the election was officially 99.6% with 99.1% voting 'yes' in Germany and Austria. The elections were held largely to rally official support from the new Ostmark (Austrian) province, although further elections for 41 seats were held in the recently annexed Sudetenland on 4 December. NSDAP candidates and "guests" officially received 97.32% of the votes.Zimmermann, Volker: Die Sudetendeutschen im NS-Staat. Politik und Stimmung der Bevölkerung im Reichsgau Sudetenland (1938–1945). Essen 1999. 3-88474-770-3 The recently completed de Kraft durch Freude cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was anchored in international waters near the United Kingdom to serve as a floating polling station for German and Austrian citizens living in the UK. On 10 April 1938, 1,978 voters (including 806 Austrians) were ferried from Tilbury, east of London. Only ten voted against annexation.The Wilhelm Gustloff Story https://www.wilhelmgustloffmuseum.com/london_polling_station.html wilhelmgustloffmuseum.com 4 March 2020 Results 1938 Austrian Anschluss referendum Germany thumb|Ballot reading: "Do you approve of the reunification of Austria with the German Reich accomplished on 13 March 1938 and do you vote for the list of our Führer, Adolf Hitler?" File:German Reichstag 1938.svg Nazi Party and guests 48905004 814 Against 454952 75667 49634569 Direct Democracyhttps://www.sudd.ch/event.php?id=de011938 Deutsches Reich, 10. April 1938 : Anschluss Österreichs; Reichstagliste -- [in German] 10 April 1938 www.sudd.chhttps://www.sudd.ch/event.php?id=at011938 Österreich, 10. April 1938 : Anschluss an das Deutsche Reich, Reichstagsliste -- [in German] 10 April 1938 www.sudd.ch Sudetenland 200px|right|thumb|Ballot for the Sudeten election, carried out on 4 December after the annexation of the Sudetenland. It would be the last election under Nazi rule. Nazi Party and guests 2464681 41 Against 27427 5496 2532863 Direct Democracyhttps://www.sudd.ch/event.php?id=cz011938 Sudetenland (Tschechien), 4. Dezember 1938 : Bekenntnis zum Führer; Reichstagsliste -- [in German] 4 December 1938 www.sudd.ch Aftermath The new Reichstag, the last of the German Reich, convened for the first time on 30 January 1939, electing a presidium headed by incumbent President of the Reichstag Hermann Göring. It convened only a further seven times, the last on 26 July 1942; among the measures passed was a renewal of the Enabling Act of 1933 for additional four years and a law giving Hitler power of life and death over every citizen. On 25 January 1943 Hitler postponed elections for a new Reichstag until after the war, with the inaugural to take place after another electoral term, subsequently on 30 January 1947 by which point the body, and the Nazi state, had ceased to exist. They were the final elections held in a united Germany prior to 1990 after German reunification.Max Domarus (2007) The Essential Hitler: Speeches and CommentaryJuly 2026 InternetArchiveBot , Bolchazy-Carducci, p292 As of , the 1938 German referendum is the last referendum held in Germany. See also Guests of the Nazi Party Faction in the Reichstag List of Reichstag deputies in the Third Reich (4th electoral term) References External links Electoral poster for the 10 April 1938 Reichstag election and referendum expanded Germany Parliamentary Germany Germany Category:Elections in Nazi Germany Category:Federal elections in Germany Category:One-party elections Category:Referendums in Germany Category:Single-candidate elections Category:Foreign electoral intervention