Thin Pink Glaze: Habsburg Legacies
Holly Case, 20 November 2025
The last Habsburg prime minister, Heinrich Lammasch, appointed on 27 October 1918 by Emperor Charles I, served for sixteen days. He was an Austrian jurist and long-term advocate of a league of nations, who had urged the signing of a separate peace with the Allies in early 1918. As prime minister he was accused by the Austrian press of being a ‘liquidator’, presiding over the end...
