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House of Lords Herrenhaus | |
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| Leadership | |
President (first) | Karl Wilhelm, 8th Prince of Auersperg (1861–1867) |
President (last) | Alfred III, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1897–1918) |
| Seats | 306 (1917) |
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| Debating chamber of the House of Lords Austrian Parliament Building Vienna | |
The House of Lords (German: Herrenhaus; Czech: Panská sněmovna; Italian: Camera dei signori; Slovene: Gosposka zbornica; Polish: Izba Panów; Romanian: Camera Domnilor; Ukrainian: Палата панів, Palata paniv) was the upper house of the Imperial Council, the bicameral legislature of the Austrian Empire from 1861 and of the Cisleithanian (Austrian) half of Austria-Hungary upon the Compromise of 1867. Created by the February Patent issued by Emperor Franz Joseph I on 26 February 1861, it existed until the end of World War I and the dissolution of the Dual Monarchy, when on 12 November 1918 the transitional National Assembly of German-Austria declared it abolished. It was superseded by the Federal Council of the Austrian Parliament implemented by the 1920 Federal Constitutional Law.