!!!Sever, Albert

b. Zagreb, Croatia (then Agram), Nov. 24, 1867, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 12, 1942. Civil servant in a health insurance 
institution and Social-Democratic politician. 1911-1918 member of the 
Reichsrat, 1918-1919 member of the Provisional National Assembly, 
1919-1920 member of the Constituent National Assembly, 1928-1934 
member of the Nationalrat. 1919-1921 provincial governor of Lower 
Austria (before Vienna became a province of its own). During this time 
he passed an ordinance for permitting registry office marriages of 
divorced persons; as the Supreme and Constitutional Courts failed to 
agree on this question, the so-called "Sever marriages" remained 
valid.

!Publication
Ein Mann aus dem Volk, 1956 (autobiography).

!Literature
P. Sever, A. S., (1867-1942), doctoral thesis, Vienna 
1969; U. Harmat, Ehe auf Widerruf?, Der Konflikt um das Eherecht in 
Oe. 1918-1938, 1999.



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