When was the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary died who proclaimed December Constitution?
December Constitution The December Constitution (German: "Dezemberverfassung") is a set of six acts that served as the constitution of the Cisleithanian half of Austria-Hungary. The acts were proclaimed by Emperor Franz Joseph on December 21, 1867 and functioned as the supreme law of the land until the collapse of the empire in 1918. Five of the Constitution's acts were replaced by the Federal Constitutional Law between 1918 and 1920; the sixth law, a bill of rights, is still in force.
Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen Franz Stadion, Graf von Warthausen (27 July 1806 – 8 June 1853), son of the Austrian diplomat Johann Philipp von Stadion. Born in Vienna, he was a statesman who served the Austrian Empire during the 1840s. From 1841 he was Governor of the Austrian Littoral (with its capital at Trieste), from 1847 to 1848 Governor of Galicia (where he freed the peasants from labor duties), and from 1848 to 1849 he was Interior Minister and Minister of Education. He advocated constitutional government, decreed the Imposed March Constitution in March 1849 which was never enacted, and in 1849 promulgated the "Gemeinde" (municipality) legislation that granted governmental autonomy to all municipalities in the Austrian empire. Lewis Namier, in "1848: The Revolution of the Intellectuals" (p. 18), calls him "one of the most enlightened and efficient Austrian administrators."