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1938 German parliamentary election and referendum

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Field	Value
country	Nazi Germany
flag_year	1938
type	legislative
previous_election	1936 German parliamentary election and referendum
previous_year	1936
election_date

next_year	[West 1949](1949-west-german-federal-election) →
[East 1949](1949-east-german-constitutional-assembly-election)
outgoing_members	List of Reichstag deputies in the Third Reich (3rd electoral term)
elected_members	List of Reichstag deputies in the Third Reich (4th electoral term)
seats_for_election	All 814 seats in the Reichstag
majority_seats	408
registered	49,634,569 ( 9.2%)
turnout	99.6% ( 0.6pp)
image1
leader1	Adolf Hitler
party1	Nazi Party
last_election1	98.8%, 741 seats
seats1	814
seat_change1	73
popular_vote1	48,905,004
percentage1	99.1%
swing1	0.3 pp
title	Government
before_election	Hitler cabinet
before_party	NSDAP
posttitle	Government after election
after_election	Hitler cabinet
after_party	NSDAP

East 1949

Parliamentary elections were held in Germany (including recently annexed Austria) on 10 April 1938. 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, 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.

The recently completed Kraft durch Freude cruise ship 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.

Results

Germany

Sudetenland

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.

As of , the 1938 German referendum is the last Federal referendum held in Germany.

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p762 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
. ["Reichstagshandbücher, 1938/1: Verzeichnis der Mitglieder des Reichstags"](http://www.reichstagsprotokolle.de/Blatt4_h1_bsb00000146_00127.html). *[[Bayerische Staatsbibliothek]]*.
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. {{ISBN. 3-88474-770-3
"The Wilhelm Gustloff Story".
(10 April 1938). "Deutsches Reich, 10. April 1938 : Anschluss Österreichs; Reichstagliste -- [in German]".
(10 April 1938). "Österreich, 10. April 1938 : Anschluss an das Deutsche Reich, Reichstagsliste -- [in German]".
(4 December 1938). "Sudetenland (Tschechien), 4. Dezember 1938 : Bekenntnis zum Führer; Reichstagsliste -- [in German]".
Max Domarus (2007) [http://www.nazi.org.uk/political%20pdfs/TheEssentialHitler-SpeechesAndCommentary.pdf ''The Essential Hitler: Speeches and Commentary''], Bolchazy-Carducci, p292

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