!!!Bürgerministerium

Buergerministerium (Bourgeois Ministry), 1868-1870, the first ministry 
established after the adoption of the "December Constitution". It was 
headed by Prince Karl Auersperg (until June 1868), who was succeeded 
by E. Taaffe (from June 1868 to January 1870) and by J. W. Berger 
(from January to April 1870); the bourgeois ministry comprised the 
most important representatives of the bourgeois German liberal 
constitutional party (J. W. Berger, R. Brestel, K. Giskra, L. 
Hasner, G. Herbst and I. Plener); the general public expected the 
bourgeois cabinet to implement their major demands in the fields of 
cultural, economic and domestic policy; the bourgeois ministry was 
able to enact several liberal reforms, e.g., undoing parts of the 
Concordat of 1855, reaching consensus as to the law regulating primary 
education (Reichsvolksschulgesetz), introducing compulsory military 
service, and improving the state budget.

!Literature
W. Rudolf, Karl Fuerst Auersperg als Minister-Praesident 
(1868), in: MIOeG 85 (1977).


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