What is this "Austria" you speak of?
Look up the definition of Anschluss and tell me what you find...I believe it comes right before "großdeutschland".
You're beginning to see how ridiculous the whole thing was.
1. LAH - runes
2. Das Reich - runes
3. Totenkopf - totenkopf
4. Polizei - police insignia, possibly some SS insignia
5. Wiking - viking ship authorized, runes actually issued
6. Nord - runes
7. Prinz Eugen - odalrune
8. Florian Geyer - runes
9. Hohenstaufen - runes
10. Frundsberg - runes
11. Nordland - sunwheel
12. Hitlerjugend - runes
13. Handschar - scimitar
14. Ukrainian - lion
15. Latvian - some runes, later a sunburst
16. Reichsführer SS - runes
17. Götz v. Berlichtengen - runes
18. Horst Wessel - SA authorized, probably runes issued
19. Latvian - swastika
20. Estonian - runes, later E and sword, still later armoured arm and sword
21. Albanian - Skanderbeg helmet
22. Maria Theresa - cornflower
23. Croatian - sunburst authorized, never issued
24. Nederland - Wolfsangel
25. Hungarian - Capital H unconfirmed
26. Hungarian - paper only
27. Langemarck - runes as brigade, three footed swastika (Trifos)
28. Walloons - Burgundy Cross and runes both likely
29. Russian - Maltese cross with swords illustrated but not issued
29. (duplicate) Italian - fasces possibly worn
30. Russian - Orthodox Russian Cross possible, or Trident of Vladimir
31. ad hoc - SS runes, possibly officers only
32. 30 January - runes
33. Hungarian - paper only
33. (duplicate) Charlemagne - sunwheel or palm leaves
34. Landstorm Nederland - rune, flaming grenade, and Wolfsangel all illustrated in various sources
35. Polizei - mix of Police and SS
36. WaffenGrenadier Div - crossed rifles and grenade
37. Lutzow - runes?
38. Nibelungen - ad hoc unit
Whether or not the different prototypes mentioned were widely issued or not probably isn't the point. The Nazis
didn't want "aliens" wearing their "ethnically pure" SS runes on their uniforms. The point here is that the runes were reserved for "German" formations - note that the 16th Division was considered one such, despite its relatively high number, and no special insignia was created for it, unlike, say, the 7th Division, formed earlier, and given the Odalrune to set it apart from ethnic Germans who were to wear the runes. The 16th was recruited from Himmler's personal guard units in Germany in 1943, while the 7th came from ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia and Austria the year before.