Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2022
Abstract
The main goal of the article is to compare the crisis of the role of the German Reichstag and Austrian Nationalrat in the early 1930's and how the relationship parliament-government/president was influenced in that respect. We argue that the German system of emergency decrees of the President (Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution) systematically undermined the German parliament in favour of state bureaucracy and a technocratic government.
In Austria, since March 4, 1933 Dollfuss coalition of the right wing of Political Catholicism with the Heimwehr implemented a degree law with the War Economy Empowering Act (KWEG) as a tool to govern without parliament.