page_title: House of Lords (Austria)
section_title: Presidency
hierarchical_section_title: House of Lords (Austria) / Presidency
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Der Dargestellte sitzt nach links gewandt, mit stoischem, nachdenklichen Ausdruck. Er trägt einen Frack, unter dem die rot-grüne Schärpe des St. Stephans-Ordens deutlich zu erkennen ist - dieser Orden war die höchste Auszeichnung der Monarchie. Ritter von Schmerling stützt seinen rechten Arm auf einen Schreibtisch, auf dem Bücher und Schriftstücke ausgebreitet sind. Er hält eines der Bücher aufgeschlagen in der Hand.
context_page_description: The House of Lords was the upper house of the Imperial Council, the bicameral legislature of the Austrian Empire from 1861 and of the Cisleithanian half of Austria-Hungary upon the Compromise of 1867. Created by the February Patent issued by Emperor Franz Joseph I on 26 February 1861, it existed until the end of World War I and the dissolution of the Dual Monarchy, when on 12 November 1918 the transitional National Assembly of German-Austria declared it abolished. It was superseded by the Federal Council of the Austrian Parliament implemented by the 1920 Federal Constitutional Law.
context_section_description: According to the 1861 February Patent, the presiding committee of the House of Lords was made up of the president and his deputies, always aristocratic members who were appointed by the emperor at the beginning of a new legislative session. The emperor also had the exclusive right to recall the presidium, which never happened throughout the years of the House's existence. The meetings were alternately chaired by the board members, temporarily acting as President of the House of Lords.
caption: Anton von Schmerling, President of the House of Lords from 1871, painting by Friedrich von Amerling
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