Projects
Imperial Council Researches
As the highest judicial court, as an imperial administrative authority and as a council body, the Imperial Court Council was one of the most important institutions of the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern period. Since 2012, the FRQ has been involved in a project of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities to index the records of the Imperial Court Council.
More InformationKelsen Researches
Hans Kelsen is considered one of the most important jurists of the 20th century. The life and work of the "architect" of the Austrian Federal Constitution in 1920 and creator of the so-called Reine Rechtslehre have been studied in several FRQ research projects since 2012.
More InformationThe Treaty of Saint Germain
The Treaty of Saint Germain is one of the so-called Paris Suburban Treaties that ended World War I. It was signed between the Republic of Austria on the one hand, and the Allied and Associated Powers (USA, British Empire, France, Italy, Japan and others) on the other hand, on September 10, 1919 in the "Stone Age Hall" of the Saint-Germain-en-Laye Castle near Paris. The FRQ, together with the ÖAW and the Universities of Graz and Linz and Vienna, prepared the first comprehensive commentary on the Treaty of Saint Germain 1919. This project was funded by the FWF (project P 29774-G16).
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More InformationFederal Constitutional Law
The Austrian Federal Constitutional Law (B-VG 1920) is the oldest republican constitution still in existence in Europe. It has been in force since 1920 (except for the years 1934 to 1945) and, despite numerous amendments, still shows the handwriting of Hans Kelsen in its structure and in many individual provisions. The FRQ, together with the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Freiburg i.Br., is editing all sources on the origins of the B-VG (FWF project I 5679).
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