State notary

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State notary is a term from the Austrian constitutional history ; Notary of a state .

history

In October 1918, the provisional national assembly of the collapsing Habsburg Empire formed an executive committee from among its members, which was supposed to prepare the statehood of German Austria. In the law of December 19, 1918 (StGBl. No. 139/1918) “on the basic institutions of state power”, the areas of government and executive power were amended and specified after the emperor's disappearance as head of state. This concerned in particular the functional provisions of the State Council, the State Government (Cabinet) and the State Chancellor. According to its Section 3, Paragraph 2, the head of the State Seal Office bears the title of “State Notary”. The main task of the state notary consisted in notarizing the resolutions of the State Council and its directorate (Section 3 (3) and Section 6 (2)). The state seal office should support the state notary in his involvement in the notarizations incumbent on him. It also kept the seals, emblems and jewels of the state (§ 13).

The office of the state notary was already abolished by the law of March 14, 1919 (StGBl. No. 180/1919), whereby the business of the state notary was transferred to the later President of the First Republic in Austria.

The first and only state notary was Julius Sylvester (1854–1944), who was a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court from 1919 .

Germany

In colloquial language, the term "Staatsnotar" is occasionally used as a term for the German Federal President .