On July 23, 1914, the Cisleithanian Council of Ministers learnt from prime minister Karl Stürgkh of the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia. On November 22, 1916, the Council’s first session of was dedicated entirely to a “declaration of mourning on the occasion of the passing away of His Majesty Francis Joseph”. The present volume is a scholarly edition of the Ministerial Council minutes between these two dates. The Council underwent a major reshuffle in 1915. Stürgkh was assassinated in...

Volume IV/1 of the series “Die cisleithanischen Ministerratsprotokolle” covers the period from February 1879 to December 1882. In these approx. four years, 445 Ministerial council meetings took place, dealing with 2,165 agenda items. Of these, 68 protocols survived the Palace of Justice fire, albeit damaged. Therefore, this volume, containing six additional transcripts from other sources, includes 74 protocols with 385 agenda items (17.7 %). In the period covered, the German-liberal opposition...

Volume III/1 of the edition of the minutes of the Cisleithanian Council of Ministers covers the period from late November 1871 to late April 1872, the first deciding months of Adolph Auersperg's government. (German-) centralist and constitutional, it ended the past federalist constitutional experiments and shaped a politically stable liberal era until 1879. The first and most important task of this new government was the dissolution of the state parliaments and the holding of new elections....

Volume II of the edited Minutes of the Cisleithanian Council of Ministers covers the years 1868–1871, the period from the first Cisleithanian government under Carlos Auersperg to the resignation of the interim government under Ludwig Holzgethan. The documents published in this volume belong to those that have been severely affected by the Palace of Justice fire in 1927. Of the 618 sessions that took place during the period in question, 73 original protocols have survived the fire only...

With the Minutes of the Cisleithanian Cabinet 1867–1918, the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History is continuing the edition series Minutes of the Austrian Cabinet 1848–1867. These minutes were relating to the “Kingdoms and Lands represented within the Reichsrat”, aka Cisleithania, a new political entity which had been the result of the 1867 Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich). The first of the new volumes also introduces revised editing guidelines, in response to the bad condition...