Vol. XXXV · 2004
Ernest von Koerber and the Austrian State Idea
A Reinterpretation of the Koerber Plan (1900–1904)

Fredrik Lindström

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IN COMPARISON WITH MOST of his predecessors and successors as imperial Austrian minister president, Ernest von Koerber (1850-1919) has attracted a special sort of scholarly interest. In the rare instances when scholars have investigated Austrian governments during the era of the Dual Monarchy (1867-1918), these governments have been approached in the direct context of this system and era. Koerber's five-year-long government (1900-1904) has instead been studied in the considerably wider frame of reference of the modernization of Europe in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There are, in fact, qualities in Koerber's political program, often referred to as the "Koerber Plan," that seem to merit such attention.