Federal Government of Streeruwitz

The federal government of Streeruwitz was a short-lived Austrian federal government from May 4, 1929 to September 25, 1929 .

prehistory

The circumstances for a new government were not ideal: Austria had one of the harshest winters behind it - in Innsbruck the temperature was minus 31.5 degrees on February 12, 1929. In some cases, coal deliveries from Czechoslovakia were canceled. In addition, there was the beginning global economic crisis with soaring unemployment figures. In Vienna, the armed forces set up mobile soup kitchens on the street.

After Ignaz Seipel's resignation on April 3, 1929, the main committee of the National Council entrusted Ernst Streeruwitz with the formation of the federal government.

Members

Office	Official	Political party
Chancellor	Ernst Streeruwitz	CSP
Vice Chancellor	Vincent Schumy	LBd
Federal Minister of Justice	Franz Slama	GDVP
Federal Minister for Education	Emmerich Czermak	CSP
Federal Minister for Social Administration	Josef Resch	CSP
Federal Minister of Finance	Johann Josef Mittelberger	CSP
Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry	Florian Födermayr	CSP
Federal Minister for Trade and Transport	Hans Schürff	GDVP
Federal Minister for the Army	Carl Vaugoin	CSP

Act

With his announcement in the government declaration that the "settlement of pending differences of opinion" would be left to those "who are elected by the people" (i.e. the members of parliament), Ernst Streeruwitz immediately made the Home Guard an opponent.

The government's successes included a new rent law, an amendment to the unemployment insurance law and the small pensioners law. Chancellor Streeruwitz negotiated skillfully with the social democratic opposition and was valued for his goal-oriented and pragmatic policies.

A bloody dispute in August 1929 between the socialist Schutzbund and the increasingly fascist Heimwehr in Sankt Lorenzen im Mürz Valley prompted the Landbund to demand a constitutional reform from Chancellor Streeruwitz. Streeruwitz responded and set up a committee to work out a draft for it. The governor of Tyrol Franz Stump and the federal leader of the Heimwehr Richard Steidle attacked Streeruwitz for having shown too much “tolerance” towards “Marxism”. The home guards threatened to actually carry out the "March on Vienna" that had been announced over and over again. On September 20, the organ of the Lower Austrian Heimatschutzverband issued a “final warning!” It warned against watering down the constitutional reform and against “lazy compromises with the Marxists”. A putsch by the Heimwehr was in the room, prices fell on the stock exchanges and a decline in the value of the currency was foreseeable. Streeruwitz thereupon declared on September 25th that, in view of the political situation, the constitutional reform would be left to another government and resigned. As a successor he suggested the police chief Johann Schober . After revision by the federal government Schober III, the draft constitution became the basis for the constitutional amendment of 1929 .

Streeruwitz was entrusted with the continuation of government business until September 26, before Schober was again Chancellor.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Hugo Portisch : Austria I: The underestimated republic . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1989, ISBN 978-3-218-00485-5 , p. 340 f .
2. ^ Before the election of the new federal government . In: Wiener Zeitung . tape 226 , no. 104 , May 4, 1929, pp. 1 ( Online at ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online ).
3. ↑ Law: Housing Promotion and Rent Act . In: BGBl . No. 200/1929 . Vienna June 21, 1929 ( online at ALEX ).
4. ↑ Law: XXIII. Amendment to the Unemployment Insurance Act . In: BGBl . No. 223/1929 . Vienna July 16, 1929 ( online at ALEX ).
5. ^ Act: Small Pensioners Act . In: BGBl . No. 251/1929 . Vienna June 26, 1929 ( online at ALEX ).
6. ^ Robert Kriechbaumer , Hubert Weinberger, Franz Schausberger (eds.): "Save this Austria" . Protocols of the Christian Social Party Congress of the First Republic (=  series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer Library . Volume 27 ). Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77378-8 , pp. 369 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
7. ^ ^{A b} Dietrich Derbolav: Austria, a "semi-presidential" republic? In: The Standard . November 24, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2017 . 
8. ^ Hugo Portisch : Austria I: The underestimated republic . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1989, ISBN 978-3-218-00485-5 , p. 364 f .
9. ↑ Streeruwitz resigned. His successor - Schober! In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . tape 42 , no. 266 , September 26, 1929, pp. 1 ( Online at ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online ).