Vienna Under The Surface 2016 - Palaces, Streets and Squares by Just Maximilian

Author:Just, Maximilian [Just, Maximilian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

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THE VIENNESE AND THE MONARCHY -

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A TITLE

"THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA IS A REPUBLIC WITHOUT REPUBLICANS ". This was once said by the surely most famous chronicler of Vienna, the author Karl Kraus1 .

The imperial tradition is still very strong in Vienna. Have you ever heard of a social-democratic politician who carries the title "court councilor?" There are lots of them in Vienna.

The famous Austrian desire to have a title is an inherited custom from the time of the monarchy. Surnames just have to have an abbreviation preceding them. In fact in Austria there are about 900 official titles that are regulated by law. Titles are not revoked from the deceased. Thus you will not only see titles on gravestones, but in Vienna you will also notice a lot of doctor titles on the city street signs.

Austria is a country of many academic and non-academic titles, honorary degrees and so-called professional titles. Since some titles are deductive and gender-specific.

The wife of a doctor is also a Frau Doctor and the wife of a professor is a Frau Professor - without having ever attended one single lecture at university. But the husband of a doctor is not Herr Doctor.

So, titles are very important and the Tradition is still very strong in Vienna. If the waiter in the Kaffeehaus (coffeehouse) greets you formally as "Herr Professor" or "My dear Lady", then please do not be insulted. The "Herr Ober", as head waiters are called in Vienna, was just trying to be friendly!

Still today the Federal President of Austria resides in the Hofburg and executes his official functions from the workroom of Empress Maria Theresa2 . In addition, during state visits and banquets he entertains his guests with the same table settings as once the illustrious line of Habsburgs once did.

Although Zita3 , the last Empress of Austria, did not abdicate her right to the throne, the Austrian federal government allowed her to return to Austria in 1982. After her death on April 1st, 1989, Zita was ceremoniously laid to rest in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna in the same imperial "black hearse" funeral coach that as once carried was Emperor Franz Joseph I4 . Very few of the leading Austrian federal and Viennese politicians missed the chance to take part in this funeral procession.

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