1) In 1933 Austria's democratic institutions were overthrown and replaced by an undemocratic government, the so-called Austrian-fascist regime, of which Engelbert Dollfuß and Kurt Schuschnigg were dominating figures.
2) Due to pressure of nationalsocialist Germany the last Austrian president Wilhelm Miklas relunctantly appointed Seyß-Inquart as chancellor. Seyß-Inquarts only task was to prepare the Anschluss.