War Damaged Fund
The War Damaged Fund was a fund of the First Republic of Austria after the First World War .
On the basis of a law of 1919, the war victims' fund was set up as an endowment fund . The Vienna- based fund was formed by taking over the assets of the House of Habsburg . The net income from the fund should go to support the war-damaged widows and orphans of the First World War.
In the law, however, the possibility was left open to separate goods from the fund for reasons of state art preservation or because they were intended to serve public administrative purposes.
One example of a property belonging to the fund was the Lainzer Tiergarten . The fund, which was facing ruin, wanted to turn the zoo into money. In 1937 the fund was dissolved.
Individual evidence
- ^ War Damaged Fund , 1921–1923 (carton (fascicle)) ; Retrieved September 20, 2010
- ^ History of the Lainzer Tiergarten ; Retrieved September 20, 2010