Minutes of the Cabinet Meetings Figl I, Volumes 9 and 10

The complete annotated edition of the Minutes of the Cabinet Meetings Figl I will provide 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 research work on the reconstruction and renewal of state and political organs of the Second Republic. In a hitherto unavailable measure both opposition and consensus in discussions among the Members of the Government concerning particular problems can be pursued on the basis of the Minutes. The transcription of these sources (written in Gabelsberger shorthand notes) quite often provides additional information not available in the fair copy. In the framework of the research project it is intended to prepare the volumes 9 and 10 out of twelfe volumes of the projected edition for publication: Volume 9 - Minutes of Cabinet Meetings No. 116 of 15 June 1948 to No. 130 of 26 October 1948. Volume 10 - Minutes of Cabinet Meetings No. 131 of 2 November 1948 to No. 146 of 22 February 1949. The edition of the Minutes of the Figl Cabinet (Ministerratsprotokolle der Regierung Figl) will not only present new knowledge and insights about the difficult reconstruction phase of the Second Republic but it will also open up further aspects of research work. Also the edition of these sources will constitute a fund for scholarly research and provide researchers with references to available archive material and point them to missing/unavailable sources. This will save time not only for the staff of the archives, but also for users/researchers who otherwise would conduct extensive individual searches. Providing information on all the historical participants of the source materials in question is an extensive biographical index which constitutes an important addition to the research of social elites in Austria, a matter very often neglected. Last but not least, the planned research project will present an essential, long overdue basis for international comparison of the political, social and economic position in Europe after the Second World War.

The complete annotated edition of the Minutes of the Cabinet Meetings Figl I will provide 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 research work on the reconstruction and renewal of state and political organs of the Second Republic. In a hitherto unavailable measure both opposition and consensus in discussions among the Members of the Government concerning particular problems can be pursued on the basis of the Minutes. The transcription of these sources (written in Gabelsberger shorthand notes) quite often provides additional information not available in the fair copy. In the framework of the research project it is intended to prepare the volumes 9 and 10 out of twelfe volumes of the projected edition for publication: Volume 9 - Minutes of Cabinet Meetings No. 116 of 15 June 1948 to No. 130 of 26 October 1948. Volume 10 - Minutes of Cabinet Meetings No. 131 of 2 November 1948 to No. 146 of 22 February 1949. The edition of the Minutes of the Figl Cabinet (Ministerratsprotokolle der Regierung Figl) will not only present new knowledge and insights about the difficult reconstruction phase of the Second Republic but it will also open up further aspects of research work. Also the edition of these sources will constitute a fund for scholarly research and provide researchers with references to available archive material and point them to missing/unavailable sources. This will save time not only for the staff of the archives, but also for users/researchers who otherwise would conduct extensive individual searches. Providing information on all the historical participants of the source materials in question is an extensive biographical index which constitutes an important addition to the research of social elites in Austria, a matter very often neglected. Last but not least, the planned research project will present an essential, long overdue basis for international comparison of the political, social and economic position in Europe after the Second World War.