!!!Habsburger-Gesetz

Habsburg Law: Under the law of April 3, 1919 all sovereign rights and 
other privileges (titles) of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine were 
annulled. All members of the House who did not renounce their 
membership and their rights and privileges and who did not declare 
themselves loyal citizens of the Republic were banished from the 
territory (a large number of members actually filed declarations of 
renunciation after 1960). The court assets, other than the private 
assets of the Habsburg family, were confiscated. Some claims for the 
return of such assets have been filed but the lawsuits are still 
pending. Suspended 1935-1938, the Habsburg law formed part of the 
Austrian State Treaty of 1955. Since by 1996 the banishment concerned 
only two remaining members of the Habsburg dynasty, the Council of 
Ministers declared section 2 of the Habsburg law "obsolete law" 
and granted them permission to enter the country.

!Literature
F. Ermacora, Handbuch der Grundfreiheiten und 
Menschenrechte, 1963.


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