!!!Reichsrat

Reichsrat, the representation of the peoples of the kingdoms and 
countries of the Austrian part ( Cisleithania) of the Austro-Hungarian 
monarchy 1867-1918. The Reichsrat consisted of the  Herrenhaus (291 
members appointed by the emperor (1914)) and of the  Abgeordnetenhaus 
(516 members elected for 6 years (for the last time in 1911)). Both 
houses could convene at the same time. From 1907 members of the 
Herrenhaus could also be elected members of the Abgeordnetenhaus. 
Convocation, adjournment and closure always had to apply to both 
houses. The approval of both houses was needed for a law to come into 
force (except for legislation on finance and conscription). The 
Reichsrat was suspended several times because of national conflicts, 
e.g. in 1914 when, as a result, it could not present its views on the 
outbreak of World War I. It was not summoned again until 1917, but 
split up in autumn 1918 into individual national groups. In 1918 the 
German-speaking members formed the  Provisional National Assembly of 
Deutsch-Oesterreich. The Reichsrat was at first temporarily located in 
a building in Waehringer Strasse and from 1883 in the House of 
Parliament on the Ringstrasse boulevard in Vienna.

!Literature
G. Kolmer, Parlament und Verfassung in Oesterreich, 
8 vols., 1920ff.


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