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#OTD 1916: #AustriaHungary and the German Empire were the first countries in the world to introduce #DaylightSavingTime to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.

Unfortunately, the agenda item was destroyed by fire—but it is recorded, and resourceful individuals might be able to find a Ministervortrag on the subject in the Kabinettskanzlei...

https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095.xml&searchexpr=sommerzeit#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095_1

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#history #HabsburgMonarchy #CouncilofMinisters
#EconomicHistory #WorldWarI #WWI

#OTD 1916: #AustriaHungary and the German Empire were the first countries in the world to introduce #DaylightSavingTime to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.

Unfortunately, the agenda item was destroyed by fire—but it is recorded, and resourceful individuals might be able to find a Ministervortrag on the subject in the Kabinettskanzlei...

https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095.xml&searchexpr=sommerzeit#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095_1

#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE
#history #HabsburgMonarchy #CouncilofMinisters
#EconomicHistory #WorldWarI #WWI

#OTD 1916: #AustriaHungary and the German Empire were the first countries in the world to introduce #DaylightSavingTime to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.

Unfortunately, the agenda item was destroyed by fire—but it is recorded, and resourceful individuals might be able to find a Ministervortrag on the subject in the Kabinettskanzlei...

https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095.xml&searchexpr=sommerzeit#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095_1

#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE
#history #HabsburgMonarchy #CouncilofMinisters
#EconomicHistory #WorldWarI #WWI

#OTD 1916: #AustriaHungary and the German Empire were the first countries in the world to introduce #DaylightSavingTime to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.

Unfortunately, the agenda item was destroyed by fire—but it is recorded, and resourceful individuals might be able to find a Ministervortrag on the subject in the Kabinettskanzlei...

https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095.xml&searchexpr=sommerzeit#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095_1

#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE
#history #HabsburgMonarchy #CouncilofMinisters
#EconomicHistory #WorldWarI #WWI

#OTD 1916: #AustriaHungary and the German Empire were the first countries in the world to introduce #DaylightSavingTime to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.

Unfortunately, the agenda item was destroyed by fire—but it is recorded, and resourceful individuals might be able to find a Ministervortrag on the subject in the Kabinettskanzlei...

https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095.xml&searchexpr=sommerzeit#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095_1

#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE
#history #HabsburgMonarchy #CouncilofMinisters
#EconomicHistory #WorldWarI #WWI

Watch

K. k. AUSTRIA BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Original Material from the Austrian War Cabinets, 1914‒1918

Full length #video of the presentation at the Historical Seminar series,
ZRC/SAZU, #Ljubljana, #Slovenia, Jan. 16, 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTUL_qqrzCs

#histodon #histodons
#history #Austria
#HabsburgMonarchy
#socialHistory #economicHistory #culturalHistory #politicalHistory
#WWI #WorldWarOne

Instructive new book review on vols I‒III/1:
“…anyone who has sat in the #Austrian State #Archives and pried open a document file with a pair of tweezers as its burnt edges disintegrate into a pile of dust may forgive us for our enthusiasm-“
John Deak, Austrian #History Yearbook (2024), 1–4

#dh #digitalEdition #Habsburgmonarchy
#histodon #histodons

We are excited that the project "Extinguished Countries" which we had the honor to meet last year in #Zagreb has a campaign to crowdfund a
GUIDEBOOK ON THE #HABSBURGMONARCHY :
https://www.ulule.com/exco2023/
#history #publicHistory #extinguishedcountries #crowdfunding #AustriaHungary
#histodon #histodons

"the Habsburg Monarchy became the first state in modern times to make its Jewish population liable for conscription"

https://habsmon.hypotheses.org/1184

Ilya Berkovich on Jewish Kaiserjäger at the end of the Napoleonic period

#HabsburgMonarchy #Habsburgermonarchie #Napoleonic #JewishHistory #JewishStudies #NewMilitaryHistory #englishfridays #hypolingual