Nationalversammlung, Provisorische#

Nationalversammlung, Provisorische (National Assembly, Provisional), assembly of the representatives of the people in order to establish a new state after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. As a result of the imperial manifesto, 232 German-speaking members of the parliament elected in 1911 gathered in the building of the Lower Austrian government on October 21, 1918 (102 German-nationalists from various groups, 72 Christian Socialists, 42 Social Democrats, 16 from other groups), formed the provisional National Assembly of German-Austria, which proclaimed a German-Austrian state, gave the new state a provisional constitution on October 30, 1918 and proclaimed the Republic on November 12, 1918. The parliament elected on February 16, 1919, was called a constitutional assembly and had only 170 seats instead of 250 (72 Social Democrats, 69 Christian Socialists, 26 German-Nationals and 3 from other groups) because no elections could be held in South Tyrol, South Carinthia, South Styria, Moravia, Silesia and in the Sudeten German areas. The provisional National Assembly accepted the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye on September 6, 1919, settled the constitution on October 1, 1920 and ceased to exist after the elections of October 17, 1920.

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