German-Austria Accedes to Weimar Republic as a State: Details

I'm not looking into how German-Austria might be allowed to unite with Germany or if the Sudetenland and South Tyrol would be included, that's all been discussed before. Rather, these specific details:

1. Does Austria accede as a single state, a "Free State of Austria", or do the German-majority Cisleithanian provinces do so independently?

2. If Austria does accede as a single state, does its name remain Österreich, thereby creating a "reich-within-a-reich" scenario? The Nazi government referred to Austria as Ostmark following Anschluss, but so far as I can tell this was a neologism designed to downplay the country's history as an independent realm upon its incorporation into the unitary Nazi state.

3. This isn't likely, but just for fun, might Vienna become a co-official capital of the Republic with Berlin? Perhaps the Reichstag alternates sessions between the two cities, like the Rhode Island General Assembly did until 1899 between Providence and Newport.
 

NoMommsen

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In answering the first question, the others become - unfortunatly - obsolete.

Austria was already a "Union-State" (Bundes-Staat) in its constitution of 1920, until Dollfuß managed to take over in March 1933 (Self-elimination of the Austrian Parliament). Therefore IMHO Austria would become State by State part of the 'Weimar Republic'.
  • elimination of one "Bundes-Regierung" (Union-Goverment)
  • respecting the "rights" of the single states of Austria
  • not allowing another too big member-state (Prussia was already a way too big chunk to digest (despite several attempts for a "Reichs-Reform" including mainly a split of Prussia)


The Entente, and thus. the LoN would not stand for this.
Well, the Paris-suburb-Treaties of 1919 weren't set in stone ... also the austrian border was 'finalized' in 1923only after some plebiszites in 1920 and 1921.

Could be a nice 'AHC' to make it happen before Hitler takes power in Berlin ... could maybe even butterfly his rise to power away ...
 
2. If Austria does accede as a single state, does its name remain Österreich, thereby creating a "reich-within-a-reich" scenario? The Nazi government referred to Austria as Ostmark following Anschluss, but so far as I can tell this was a neologism designed to downplay the country's history as an independent realm upon its incorporation into the unitary Nazi state.

A "reich-within-a-reich" was fine during the Holy Roman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so I don't see why Austria would give up its thousand-year old name for that.

The Entente, and thus. the LoN would not stand for this.

But are the French and British really going to spill more blood trying to stop that, especially if the US lets Austria exercise the right of self-determination? Although given this is 1919 and not a later date which Austria might try and unite with Germany, intervention is a lot more likely.
 
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