Ministerratsprotokolle der Regierung Figl I; Band 1

The scholarly commented complete edition of the Minutes of the Cabinet Figl I (Protokolle des Ministerrates der Regierung Figl I) will provides fundamental source material concerning the first years of the Second Republic. Members of the Government dealt - often in great openness - with problems of foreign, domestic and economic policy . Therefore the Minutes of the Cabinet Meetings constitute an important contribution to the reconstruction and renewal of state and political organs of the Second Republic. In an hitherto unavailable measure both opposition and consensus in discussions among the Members of the Government concerning particular problems can be pursued. The first volume (Minutes of Cabinet Meetings No. 1 from 20 December 1945 to No. 16 of 9 April 1946 of the intended ten volumes of the edition is finished for printing. The edition of the Minutes of the Figl Cabinet (Ministerratsprotokolle der Regierung Figl) not only presents new knowledge and insights about the difficult reconstruction phase of the Second Republic but it also opens up further aspects of research work. Also the edition of these sources constitutes a fund for scholarly research and provides researchers with references to available archive material and points them to missing/unavailable sources. This will save time not only for the staff of the archives, but also for users/researchers who would otherwise conduct extensive individual searches. At the same time, this edition gains in importance in view of the fact that more attention is now being paid to the Austrian economy system after 1945 a subject for research work. Last but not least, the edition presents an essential, long overdue basis for international comparison of the political, social and economic position in Europe after the Second World War.