Schellenberg [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Counts of Vaduz in 1437 and the two states have been united in fact ever since. After the Swabian War in 1499, both came under Austrian suzerainty. Different dynasties of counts bought and sold them, until their purchase in the early 18th century by the Liechtenstein dynasty, which had been granted princely status in 1706, but which needed to acquire a territory with imperial immediacy in order to vote in the Diet of the Princes of the Empire. The emperor formally united Vaduz and Schellenberg in 1719 as the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Hitler fired Canaris on the spot, and on 18 February 1944, Hitler signed a decree that abolished the "Abwehr". Its functions were taken over by the "Reichssicherheitshauptamt" or RSHA (Reich Main Security Office) and SS-"Brigadeführer" and "Generalmajor" [Brigadier General] of Police Walter Schellenberg replaced Canaris functionally within the RSHA. This action deprived the German Armed Forces ("Wehrmacht") and the anti-Nazi conspirators of an intelligence service of its own and strengthened Himmler's control over the military.