!!!Oktoberdiplom 1860

Oktoberdiplom 1860: The Austrian military defeat against 
Piedmont-Sardinia in 1859  Sardininan War also marked the end of the 
bureaucratic centralist system of  Neo-Absolutism. To implement the 
necessary governmental reforms, emperor Franz Joseph I sought the 
advice of various factions. In the "enlarged Reichsrat", the 
federalist-autonomist group prevailed. They represented the high 
aristocracy and were opposed to drastic constitutional reforms. The 
Oktoberdiplom was issued by emperor Franz Joseph on October 20, 1860; 
the Minister of the Interior, A. Goluchowski, although not entirely in 
favour of the Oktoberdiplom, was in charge of its implementation. 
Since German liberal groups in Austria and the Hungarian population 
voiced their resistance (tax strike), the Oktoberdiplom was replaced 
by the centralistic  February Patent in February of 1861.


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