Under Friday, February 25, the book of history records, among other things:
1147: King Conrad III. issues a deed of ownership to the Augustinian monastery of Klosterneuburg in which the term “Austria” is used for Austria for the first time.
1837: A patent was issued to the American Thomas Davenport from Rutland/Vermont for the first functional electric motor.
1912: China’s new president, Marshal Yuan Shikai, is establishing an authoritarian regime and is pursuing the supporters of republic founder Sun Yat-sen, who renounced the presidency to lure the military leadership to the side of the revolution.
1922: Henri Landru, who murdered women ten times, was guillotined in Paris.
1932: The leader of the NSDAP, Adolf Hitler, becomes a German citizen with his appointment to the government council by the Braunschweig State Ministry and can therefore run for the office of Reich President. Hitler was stateless after he left Austria in 1913 without a police deregistration to avoid military service. In 1925 he had his Austrian citizenship revoked at his own request.
1942: Germany is asking Marshal Philippe Pétain to reinstate Pierre Laval, who had been dismissed by him, as head of the Vichy collaborationist regime.
1947: Introduction of the new Austrian national anthem. The text comes from Paula von Preradović, the melody is taken from the Freemason federal song “Brüder, sucht hand zum Bunde”, which was long attributed to WA Mozart.
1947: With Control Council Law No. 46, the Allies decreed the constitutional dissolution of Prussia, which is classified as a “carrier of militarism”.
1972: The number of members of the Bundesrat, the second chamber of the Austrian Parliament, is increased to 58. The federal state with the largest population (Vienna) sends twelve representatives, the others correspondingly fewer, depending on the number of inhabitants, but at least three. (In 1995 the Federal Council had 64 members).
1992: The Graz businessman Gerhard Möser, responsible for the kidnapping of Flick’s brother-in-law Günther Ragger, is arrested in Florida.
birthdays: Carlo Goldoni, Italian comedy writer (1707-1793); Karl May, German writer (1842-1912); Ewald Matare, German sculptor (1887-1965); Wilhelm Goldmann, German publisher (1897-1974); Anthony Burgess, British writer (1917-1993); Hans Apel, German politician (1932-2011); Elisabeth Hlavac, Austria politician (1952); Christian Kolonovits, Austria Arranger/Producer (1952).
days of death: Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (1492-1547); Thomas Moore, Irish. poet (1779-1852); Kurt von Wolfurt, German composer (1880-1957); Erland Josephson, Swedish actor (1923-2012); Bill Paxton, US actor (1955-2017).
name days: Walpurga, Adeltrud, Viktor, Adelhelm, Sebastian, Adam, Konstantin, Edeltraud.