!!!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.

!Literature
R. Neck, Oesterreich im Jahre 1918, Berichte und 
Dokumente, 1968; K. R. Stadler, Die Gruendung der Republik, in E. 
Weinzierl and K. Skalnik, Oesterreich 1918-38, vol. 1, 1983.


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