Heinrich Lammasch
Heinrich Lammasch (21 May 1853 – 6 January 1920) was an Austrian jurist. He was a professor of criminal and international law, a member of the Hague Arbitration Tribunal, and served as the last Minister-President of Austria (or Cisleithania) for a few weeks in October and November 1918.
Born~Died May 21, 1853 ~ Jan 6, 1920Last edited Oct 15, 2026, 4:09 PM
Details
- Born ~ Died
- May 21, 1853 ~ Jan 6, 1920
- Monarch
- Charles I
- Preceded by
- Max Hussarek von Heinlein
- Succeeded by
- Karl Renner, (State Chancellor of German-Austria)
- Born
- (1853-05-21)21 May 1853, Seitenstetten, Lower Austria, Austrian Empire
- Location
- 48.0350, 14.6542
Heinrich Lammasch (21 May 1853 – 6 January 1920) was an Austrian jurist.1 He was a professor of criminal and international law, a member of the Hague Arbitration Tribunal, and served as the last Minister-President of Austria (or Cisleithania) for a few weeks in October and November 1918. He was the first and only Minister-President in the Austrian half of the Habsburg Monarchy to have been a commoner, although he was not the first to have been born one by any means.
Biography
He was born in Seitenstetten, Lower Austria,2 the son of notary Heinrich Lammasch sen. (1823–1865) and his wife Anna née Schauenstein (1829–1891). Soon after his birth, the family moved to Wiener Neustadt and from there to Vienna. Upon the early death of his father, Lammasch attended the Schottengymnasium and studied law at the University of Vienna, obtaining his doctorate in 1876.2
Having traveled extensively through Germany, France and the United Kingdom, he qualified for the criminal law teaching faculty at the Vienna University in 1879. His pioneer pamphlet on the objective danger in the conception of attempted crime won for him in 1882 an extraordinary professorship, and in 1885 a full professorship at the University of Innsbruck. In 1893 he openly opposed a regressive draft penal law enacted by Minister-President Prince Windisch-Grätz.
In 1889, Lammasch returned to Vienna and there became an advocate of the idea of a in the spirit of . He became an who participated in the . A member of the , he arranged the dispute between Great Britain and the , and the dispute between the latter and .
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