(historical, until 1918) A designation of the (predominantly) German-speaking territories of Cisleithania.
(historical) A country created following World War I as the initial rump state for areas with a predominantly German-speaking population within what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
2009, Bernard Wasserstein, Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time, page 101:
On 12 November the National Assembly unanimously declared a republic and simultaneously announced that German-Austria was part of Germany.
