The Republic of Austria and the Habsburg Inheritance
The Republic of Austria and the Habsburg Inheritance
Author(s): Arkadiusz StempinSubject(s): History of Law, Political history, Government/Political systems, Politics and law, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: Habsburg Law; passive suffrage law; crown goods; Familienversorgungsfonds; Kaiser-Franz- -Joseph-Kron- -Fideikommiß; abdication and banishment of the Habsburgs; Karl Habsburg; Zita Habsburg;
Summary/Abstract: Starting from the abdication of Charles Habsburg and its circumstances, this paper undertakes the anamnesis of the development of the Habsburg Law and the consequences of its enactment, both in terms of the banishment and emigration of the members of the House of Habsburg, as well as the acquisition, distribution and allocation of their property, from 1918/19 to modern times, that is, in the subsequent forms of government in the Republic of Austria; from the First Republic, to the years of fascism and Anschluss, to the Third Reich, to the modern republic (since 1955). Within this timeline, until the national exhibition marking the centenary of the abdication – “Rupture and Continuity” 2019, this paper analyses the ambivalent attitude of Austrians to the former imperial family along with the fundamental element of this relationship: the unworked-through history of the Habsburgs in the collective memory of the Austrian society.
Journal: Folia Historica Cracoviensia
- Issue Year: 25/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 163-192
- Page Count: 30
- Language: English