!!!Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Staatsvertrag von

Saint-Germain, Treaty of: On September 10, 1919, State Chancellor 
Karl Renner, as head of the Austrian delegation to the peace 
conference after the First World War at Saint-Germain Palace in Paris, 
signed the treaty between Austria and the 27 "allied and 
associated powers"; the treaty contained 381 articles in 14 
sections. Section II (Articles 27-35) deals with the 
Austrian borders: SouthTirol and Val Canale (Carinthia) had to be 
ceded to Italy, southern Styria and Miestal valley (Carinthia) to 
Yugoslavia, the area around the town of Feldsberg and 14 
municipalities near Gmuend to the ČSR. Austria succeeded in 
reaching an agreement on holding a plebiscite for the bilingual area 
in southern Carinthia ( Abstimmungsgebiete (Austrian areas subject to 
the Plebiscite of 1920). The German-language districts of western 
Hungary ( Burgenland) were awarded to Austria.  Anschluss with Germany 
was prohibited, the name of the state 
(Deutsch-Oesterreich=German-Austria) was changed to 
"Oesterreich" (Austria). According to Section V 
(Articles 118-159) Austria was not allowed to introduce 
compulsory military service (it was allowed a professional army 
consisting of 30,000 men) and had to destroy arms and armaments 
factories. Sections I (Covenant of the League of Nations) and 
XIII (Statute of the International Labour Organisation), which were 
were intended to form the foundations of the future peace order in 
Europe, are contained verbatim in all the  Pariser Vorortevertraege 
(German name for the peace treaties of 1919 etc.). At the preceding 
negotiations the Austrian delegation was only allowed to raise written 
objections and the draft text had to be accepted almost unchanged. 
Austria was treated as a successor state to the Austro-Hungarian 
Monarchy (like Hungary) and was to pay compensation for the 
consequences of the war.

!Literature
Vertragstext im Staatsgesetzgruendungsblatt der Republik 
Oesterreich, 1919; Bericht ueber die Taetigkeit der 
deutsch-oesterreichischen Friedensdelegation in St. Germain, 2 vols., 
1919; F. Fellner, Der Vertrag von St. Germain, in: E. Weinzierl 
and K. Skalnik (eds.), Oesterreich 1918-1938, Geschichte der Ersten 
Republik, vol. 1, 1983; St. Germain 1919, Symposion der 
wissenschaftlichen Kommission des T.-Koerner-Stiftungsfonds und des 
L.-Kunschak-Preises zur Erforschung der Geschichte Oesterreichs der 
Jahre 1918-1938, 1979, published vol. 7, 1983.


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