!!!Provisorische Nationalversammlung

Provisional National Assembly, parliament established during the early 
phase of the  First Republic. On October 21, 1918 the German-speaking 
deputies (from the German Crown Lands, the Sudetenland, Silesia, South 
Moravia and German-speaking enclaves) elected to the house of 
representatives, which had been formed in 1911, met and called 
themselves the "Provisional National Assembly of the Independent 
German-Austrian State". The assembly elected three presidents (F. 
 Dinghofer of the German Nationalist Party, J.  Fink of the 
Christian-Socialist Party, who was followed by J. N.  Hauser, and 
K.  Seitz of the Social-Democratic Party) after October 30. A State 
Council was created to serve as executive body; the assembly declared 
the First Republic on November 12, 1918. The Provisional National 
Assembly ceased to exist as of February 16, 1919 and was replaced by 
the  Constituent National Assembly.

!Literature
R. Neck, Oesterreich im Jahre 1918. Berichte und 
Dokumente, 1968; A. Ableitinger (ed.), Demokratisierung und 
Landesverfassung in Oesterreich 1918-1920, 1983.


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